Do I have to respond to unsolicited emails?

Question

I work in marketing and am bombarded with emails offering venues, marketing and promotional items and various other arb services. I did not ask these people to contact me, but understand and appreciate that they are only trying to market themselves. Replying takes up my time and email resources. What should I do?

Answer 1

Assuming it's real email (not spam) and it sounds like it is then you will grease the wheels of business by giving people the courtesy of a reply.

Get your IT people to help you build a little automated reply tool that will allow you to send a standard 'thanks, but no thanks' reply at the press of a single key combination.

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Answer 2

Enable a spam filter and quit responding to unsolicited e-mail, when you get this email ( which will be less with spam blocker on) report it as spam and delete the file.

Answer 3

NO. In fact, you'd be doing more harm than good. A reply to a message shows the receiver that your e-mail address is valid and only guarantees that you'll get more span.

Just delete it and forget about it.

Answer 4

do not respond to spams, it will show that your email is actually active and responsive to unsolicited emails

all you're doing is inviting more and more.

if you're using outlook or similar email program, use the spam filter feature to automatically redirect them to your trash can

if you're using online email service like yahoo, just mark those as spam and you'll never be sent spam from those particular addresses.

Answer 5

I work in marketing as well. This is still considered SPAM, you don't have to reply to ANYTHING at all. Don't feel obligated.

Answer 6

I myself would mark them as spam so that they go to bulk mail and not take up space in regular e-mail box.

Answer 7

the only way a email can harm is if you open it especially with an attachment

Answer 8

Ignore, delete,never open them.

Answer 9

just delete them thats what we do here