The Secret Fear
Jul. 4th, 2012 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyAustralia has a new carbon tax as on 1 July. So that's exciting. We are starting to get reports of businesses putting their prices up unnecessarily, using the carbon tax as an excuse. This includes a chain of bakeries, whose internal memo saying 'increase prices and blame it on the carbon tax' has been leaked. That's not all that interesting, granted, but I really liked the way the ABC presented it:
Well done, headline writer.
While I am putting pictures in, consider this: I get a regular email from a charity. I am on a bit of an email-clearing binge at the moment, unsubscribing to things as they come in (if they are respectable organisations, not spammers who will take any response as a sign their emails are being read). So I clicked the 'unsubscribe' link at the bottom of the email and was taken to a page with this on it:
I have read this over and over and I don't understand it at all. Do I have to click that box and put my address? Or just put my address, leaving the box unclicked? Or did clicking the link automatically unsubscribe me, and doing anything else will resubscribe me? I tried all those things, and none of them resulted in a 'you have been unsubscribed' email, so I will have to wait and see if I get another newsletter.
Well done, headline writer.
While I am putting pictures in, consider this: I get a regular email from a charity. I am on a bit of an email-clearing binge at the moment, unsubscribing to things as they come in (if they are respectable organisations, not spammers who will take any response as a sign their emails are being read). So I clicked the 'unsubscribe' link at the bottom of the email and was taken to a page with this on it:
I have read this over and over and I don't understand it at all. Do I have to click that box and put my address? Or just put my address, leaving the box unclicked? Or did clicking the link automatically unsubscribe me, and doing anything else will resubscribe me? I tried all those things, and none of them resulted in a 'you have been unsubscribed' email, so I will have to wait and see if I get another newsletter.