I wrote about the notion of Marketing Attacks last week. It got me thinking about marketing techniques the world could do without - which is slightly different to just plain bad marketing (doubtless a far more extensive list).

I had to spend a couple of days at home at the start of this week, so was exposed to the pleasure that is automated voice spam.

The scenario is: phone rings, put down two year old, spring across the room, snatch the phone, and a cinema announcement circa 1970 tells me: "This is a free public announcement..." Obviously this encouraged a couple of expletives, which seemed to stick with the two year old for the rest of the day.

So that's #1 on my list of marketing techniques that should be outlawed.

Obviously, one on its own doesn't make much of a list, any others?