Would you open an email from "Employer Employer" with the subject line "Welcome Email"?

I moved it to my spam folder before opening it, that way images wouldn't open and tracking pixels couldn't activate.

Turned out it was from a recruiting services marketing group at the main campus of the local university! Talk about a horrible way to launch a marketing campaign! Not to mention the timing - who launches the intro letter of a marketing campaign on the Friday before a Tuesday Christmas! Half of the people she emailed are out of the office, probably at least a quarter of those are not going to be back until after New Years, and most of them when they see such a weird email name are probably going to delete it out of hand.

I feel sorry for the poor woman, she's a grad student, probably just got the position and may not have known that her email client wasn't configured properly. But she definitely dropped the ball, IMO, by sending out a mass marketing email with a subject line saying Welcome Email.

I sent her a reply, kindly worded, suggesting that she might get a low reply rate, and explained why. I get a lot of what I call recruiter spam in my Gmail account, which is not the account that this one popped up in, offering me ridiculous jobs that I'm not qualified for, and those just get deleted without reply. This one just felt weird so I went to the trouble of examining it safely.