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>So in other words you could have easily blocked the spam emails you were complaining about after the first one arrived.

That's not what I said at all[2]. In fact, I said[0]:

   I was required to install a smartphone app when I purchased my tickets, keep 
   that app on my smartphone for before and during the actual game. In the 
   several months after buying a ticket and seeing the game, I received no less 
   that 100 spam email messages (I was required to provide an email address as 
   well) from the team's "partners."

I also said[1]:

   IIRC, agreeing to receive marketing emails was one of the terms of installing 
   the app which was required to use the tickets.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671480

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678895

[2] And yes, I know you're being a trollish jackass, but I have a little time to kill this morning, so lucky you. That's all the feeding you're gonna get. Now back under your bridge!

I'm being a trollish jackass?!? Fuck off. I posted a helpful tip - for you and for others - on how you can avoid the bullshit you were whinging about, and that you specifically claimed you couldn't block. You replied with condescending trolling pointing out how amazing you are and how you don't need my advice because you run your own email, as if that's some amazing achievement. What it does mean though is that, as I pointed out in my last message, you could have easily blocked the trash email you were whinging about once you had your ticket, making your whinging about it entirely redundant boo-hooing about nothing.

  > I also said[1]: IIRC, agreeing to receive marketing emails was one of the terms of installing the app which was required to use the tickets.

Uh-huh, sure, you pointed out, after I had posted and in a different thread that I haven't looked at since, that you theoretically agreed to receive spam according to a shitty set of T&Cs. I'm not sure how this is relevant to managing/blocking said spam? Or your assholish response to my attempt to help you?

Oh noes! They might cancel your subscription to their shitty app that you have explicitly stated you don't want! Maybe they'll call the police! I mean, you have your tickets and have been to the game already and have said that you don't plan on going to another one, and there's no way they could detect that you'd blocked their mail, so the net effect on you for violating their T&C is vanishingly unlikely to ever be anything other than zero, but sure, whatever, keep receiving that ridiculous volume of spam because you theoretically agreed to it, I guess?

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