Fun times uncluttering email
I’ve now been reading a number of personal development websites for awhile. Recently I started to put into effect some of the ideas I have picked up from these sites. One quite important idea is clearing out email clutter. Mailing list emails are the perfect place to start.
My experience of legitmate company mailing lists are either a) extremely easy to unsubscribe b) require some minimal involvement taking just a few minutes c) require me to log in to now forgotten accounts and d) Ciscos unsubscribe method.
Here is a screen shot of the web page I received today on trying to unsubscribe from Cisco
Cisco unsubscribe message
What I really love is not the fact that it can take 5 days to remove me from the unsubscribe list, it is that it will take up to 5 working days. What, the server running the mailing list refuses to work on weekends ?
Seriously Cisco, what confidence is this meant to instill in me if you can’t even get a simple mailing list removal to happen instantly ?
Update – I received an email about an hour later saying I was unsubscribed. Still, less than impressive.