Gotta love the customer service ethos these days...

[denny]

From:     Ticketmaster <support@reply.ticketmaster.com>
Reply-To: Ticketmaster <support@reply.ticketmaster.com>
To:       TICKETMASTER@[mydomainhere]

Hello DENNY,

You are receiving this email because you recently became a My Account member at ticketmaster.co.uk.

[...]

Please do not reply to this email, replies to this email will not be responded to or read. 
If you have any questions, visit our help pages or contact us by post.

Very supportive.

I wouldn't mind so much if the only apparent purpose of the 'welcome' email hadn't been to inform me of just how much spam I had agreed to receive when I bought a ticket through them. Apparently even if I go to their site, log in, and opt out of all their own mailings, they're still entitled to sell my address on to their 'event partners'. I guess I'll be blocking that address shortly then... probably with a suitably phrased custom delivery failure message. In fact, how about "Please do not spam to this email, spams to this email will not be responded to or read." ? :)

Comments

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

"Please do not spam to this email, spams to this email will not be responded to or read."

How about adding: "Continued spamming of this address is a violation of UK law, but you will be ignored anyway..."

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

I don't think they're allowed to do that under the UK DPA1998, but ICBW.