While we're griping about marketing emails, another pattern I've noticed from some companies are emails with subjects like: > January monthly statement: <some

While we're griping about marketing emails, another pattern I've noticed from some companies are emails with subjects like: > January monthly statement: <some drivel> > February monthly statement: <more drivel> > Account summary: please review your statement > Your January eStatement Would you be surprised if I told you that none of these emails contained an account statement? The general content of these emails is something to the effect of "Your statement is: nothing changed! So while I have your attention, here's 20MB of flashy images and here's some new ways you can give us money and why haven't you been giving us money recently?" These tactics are straight out of spammer's playbooks. These still go to my gmail account which I'm slowly migrating off of. One thing I've noticed is that often, these emails are long enough that gmail clips the message short and adds a "show full message" button. But that means it clips off the "unsubscribe" link. I've started adopting the tactic I learned here of signing up for services with different emails like `me+to-servicename`, and then having filters set up to keep their spam out of my inbox. It's wonderful, although sometimes I worry about missing an email from some support staff who urgently needs to contact me (this has literally never happened, but I still worry).