These ad companies and agencies are really sneaky though. More than a dozen of them have signed me onto their company newsletter or press release list without my consent so I have to then go and unsubscribe. I did not even write a post about some of them, I simply emailed them saying that I didn't think their news was relevant to blogging so I wouldn't be covering it on the site. Clearly this was a mistake.
I absolutely despise spam. Affiliate companies have no right to sign me up to a newsletter without my consent. It really pisses me off, particularly after I did them a favour by writing about their news story.
But what can you do? I could remove the post I wrote about the site but I'd be shooting myself in the foot as I'd be removing another page for the search engines to spider. I'm not childish or scummy enough to put their email on a spam list either so all I can do is tell them to stick it next time they ask me to tell readers about their 'important news'.
You reap what you sow!!

