Advertising and Useless Announcements in NUS E-Mail

NUS E-mail is being used to communicate all sorts of things that should be posted in a bulletin board / mailing list.

Recently I received the following mails:

Racing Cars anyone? And from a source I would trust

IMPORTANT news to all SoC students!! New music library operating times! Huh?


Free advertising privilege for a NOC student?


Some 'thoughtfully' come with the <ADV> prefix and even require read receipts

Seriously! How does the hours of music library changing operating times warrant an e-mail to be sent to all SoC e-mail accounts?

An option is to block the senders. However, the senders also sometimes (About 30% of the time) send important information. Not much choice there eh, mate?

Why can't NUS have a page of mailing lists that we can select to opt in? E.g. Music Library Announcements, Engineering Faculty Activities, SoC Events, etc. There are NUS groups that you can opt out of, which only like 5% of the senders utilise.

Maybe NUS should consider linking up with GMail Custom Domains to fight email spam. Or allow us to forward all mails from our NUS account to another account, just like SoC E-mail allows.