[pil0u]

This is illegal practice in the EU

[chrisjj]

Yet rife. My complaint to a major UK provide was rebuffed with the blatently false assertion that the email promoting a website refresh was an essential service email.

[duskdozer]

It's illegal in the US too as far as I'm aware. But you missed the part where they clearly stated "it's not marketing" ;)

[Terr_]

The corporate version of video-uploaders writing "no copyright infringement intended", except with less an an excuse for not knowing better.

[nkrisc]

They go in the junk folder and then get marked and reported as spam.