Lionel seems to have gone from sending a very occasional email to sending out one daily.
For me it seems to be a bit much. What do others think?
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It's fine with me. I get SPAM'd with much worse from other sources.
I agree. The new e-mail guru at Lionel has decided to be quite annoying. But the easy way to deal with that is to unsubscribe. If enough people do that, they will figure out that they messed up. I just wonder how much Christmas in July you need to get.
Gerry
Just delete the email----why stress out about it.
There almost always are three options with unwanted e-mail (or an over-abundance from senders you may still want to hear from occasionally):
(1) Delete the individual e-mail, which impacts just that message;
(2) Unsubscribe, which will prevent you from receiving any e-mail from that address;
(3) Assign that incoming address to your "junk" folder if your e-mail is so equipped. After your computer "learns" that this is unwanted mail (may take a certain number of times for that learning to take place) the e-mail will be filtered and you will not see it unless you go to the junk mail folder and check prior to emptying that folder.
Believe me, I feel your pain...many times a day from many senders on the computer at my office address. It is a problem that seems to be getting worse over time. In most cases, if it's something train related, I exercise Option 1 above. A quick hit of a single key without even opening/reading the e-mail.
Just delete the email----why stress out about it.
No stress.
I was just wondering what other people thought.
I think Lionel is doing themselves a disservice.
I've already unsubscribed from Lionel's email list.
(2) Unsubscribe, which will prevent you from receiving any e-mail from that address;
This does not always work -- I have found that clicking on unsubscribe links simply confirms for the sender or system thereof that there is indeed someone at receiving end and then your e-mail address ends up distributed far and wide.
Just hit the delete key.
This does not always work -- I have found that clicking on unsubscribe links simply confirms for the sender or system thereof that there is indeed someone at receiving end and then your e-mail address ends up distributed far and wide.
When I was still working, best practices recommendations were to never respond to junk mail, even to "unsubscribe". As MWB wrote, hitting unsubscribe just confirms that they have a good email address and that you opened their message.
So I never unsubscribe for anything unless I am 100 percent certain it is from a real company that got my email information legitimately. Lionel falls into this category.
I have a number of senders flagged as being spam, but I do not auto-delete, they are directed to the spam folder. Once in a while a real piece of email gets automatically flagged as spam.
Lionel being annoying is still far better than RMT being annoying.
No problem with Lionel emails. I've been getting a daily email from MTH for a while now. Very informative.
No matter what you prefer to do, just get used to it in the world we live in today. It will only get worse (and that's pretty much a guarantee). 
By the way: I have "unsubscribed" from a number of e-mail subscriptions over the past couple of years and have never had a problem with the things actually being stopped. Sometimes takes a couple of cycles, but it has worked just fine.
What MWB and CW said. (though I agree that situation is probably not applicable to Lionel - I suspect they really might unsubscribe you - but since I haven't tried, I can't say for sure).
An Example:
If anyone remembers probably around 9 or ten years ago, there was a phenomenal on-line price offered for a Polar Express starter set from a source that normally had nothing to do with trains. I'm not sure I should state the full name, so I'll say it's initials are HDC and the middle word is Decorators.
I made the mistake of trying to order one of those sets. Their system took my order only to cancel it later due to being out of stock (if they ever had it to begin with). I have been unable to "unsubscribe" from their email list ever since (I probably stopped trying after once or twice within a year of this occurrence). All they did was ensure that I will never buy a single thing from them, not that it was likely to begin with outside of the train set that started all of this.
-Dave
I have gotten emails from MTH for a very long time and l delete, because neither they nor L have lately had an epiphany and accidentally made something l want. I see the catalogs, so what is so informative in emails?
In MTH's emails they give you the history of the engines or cars included in the emails. That's what's interesting.
