Stop the spam Sky

Dear Sky Sports

Please famililarise yourselves with New Zealand’s Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007. There is also a handy guide for businesses.

Then

• include a way for me to unsubscribe from your puerile badly photoshopped spam.
• include the name and address of the sender – who is the sending entity?
• get my express consent to receive your spam
• tell me where you got my email address from

many thanks

Bye.

P.S. Please stop with the Tiger nonsense.

<Update. Sky Sports called me and apologised. Thanks.

They didn’t, it seems, realise that they needed the unsubscribe option. They are now putting in on to all future mail-outs. So that’s a good result -well done for responding so fast Sky Sports.

Apparently I would have received emails from Sky Sports before, and in the terms and conditions is embedding the “we can send you spam” clause. That’s not something I know anything about – I certainly do not recall opting in to this sort of spam.

Also looking back at my Sky emails received I see one email from “Sky Marketing” – a survey in June this year and one from Sky Television – a promo back in April, and that’s it. Both had unsubscribe options – and both were sent by other companies on behalf of Sky. Here, for reference, is how the bottom of any spam email should look – from the April newsletter. I’m guessing I hit the unsubscribe button, but I cannot honestly recall whether I did or not>