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Michele Neylon got spam from an Irish company today (it’s not his first time either) - and he’s not the only one.

Today I got a completely unsolicited junk advertising mail from a Cork-based company called ‘Micromail’ promoting their “Interactive Developer Workshops” and yes, it ticks all the boxes too. - Badly formatted HTML email with a spammy subject line, totally impersonal, un-automated unsubscription (involving sending the guy an email at his personal address with the subject “STOP”) and yes, no explanation on why I was chosen to receive this email.

Companies need to learn that this is not acceptable. For some reason, I used to think Irish companies were above peddling their wares via this cheap and abusive use of the Internet, but that thought was proven wrong before.

I’m not sure where Micromail in particular took my email address from, or what made them add it to their mailing list, thinking that I would be interested in their seminars on “Codegear RAD studio” or “JBuilder” software. I never dealt with them before or attended any of their seminars. In fact I’d never heard of them until today. Maybe they should read this… or THIS.

The fact remains that I’m not interested in their wares, nor will I ever be - and nor should anyone, while this is their way of advertising it.