minor annoyance

Subject: minor annoyance Fri 04 Jul 2008, 08:45

i get a news letter in my email from some place and they have the unsubcribe thing on the bottom if you dont want it..i have unsubscribed at least 15 times already..still get them..any ideas on how to get rid of them if the unsubscribe thing aint workin for me?? its annoying cause i get up to 4 news letters a day, just kind of a pain in the moon

Subject: Re: minor annoyance Sun 06 Jul 2008, 05:47

come on all you computer geeks, dont u have any ideas?

Subject: Re: minor annoyance Sun 06 Jul 2008, 06:26

get a good spam filter, because many of those minor annoyances like to see you try to unsubscribe so they know your address is active then they send your address to everybody trying to sell everything. affraid

Subject: Re: minor annoyance Tue 08 Jul 2008, 07:53

Do you have spam? Put it in your spam box so it doesn't come to your inbox. Eventually if you do it enough times they get the picture. Try it atleast. I have my yahoo account finally under control.

68 Joined : 22 Nov 2006 Posts : 251

Almost every type of online newsletter eventually creates more spam in your inbox. Whether it is because you get sick of the newsletter but they keep sending it or because they share your email address with other companies. What I recommend to people is to create a Yahoo or Hotmail email address for the sole purpose of these kinds of newsletters and for other online uses. Any time I need to fill out an online form and provide an email address, I use the Yahoo one. That way, any and all spam eventually sent goes there and not to my primary email address. Then, once a month or so, I clear out that Yahoo inbox.

Discourage friends and family from giving out your email address to companies that are looking for referrals as well. My sister in law is notorious for this. She's constantly going to websites that offer her some kind of "deal" in exchange for providing a handful of legit email addresses of friends.

As for trying to unsubscribe to the newsletter, here's something to try. That newsletter is most likely linked to a website, right? Go to that website and hunt around to see if you can find a link for "Contact Us." Use that email address to contact the people and request to be removed from the mailing list.

Subject: Re: minor annoyance Tue 08 Jul 2008, 17:24

if i have a spam box, i dont know where it is..can you point me in the right die-rection? thanks

Subject: Re: minor annoyance Sun 27 Jul 2008, 10:00

what email do you use, then I can.

Subject: Re: minor annoyance Wed 30 Jul 2008, 00:24

A lot of spam email we get is known as "phishing" and that is exactly what it sounds like-fishing for details.

Once you click the "unsubscribe me" button, they have the reply aka your email address, and can then send your email addy out willy-nilly (I love using that wordage) ;-)

solution:
Don't answer them.

"Remove lists don't work. You can opt out, when in fact what clicking on the link to unsubscribe will do is simply verify that you have a valid e-mail address, so that you can then get lots of spam instead of a little," said Howard Beales, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.

SPAM : http://www.ftc.gov/spam/

Yahoogle: "spam phishing" and you will gain a world of helpful information on how to combat spam.
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Subject: Re: minor annoyance Wed 30 Jul 2008, 19:19

Subject: Re: minor annoyance Thu 31 Jul 2008, 03:38

I tried that but the computer gremlins always talk me into coming back and plugging it back in.

Subject: Re: minor annoyance Thu 31 Jul 2008, 04:37

Subject: Re: minor annoyance Sat 02 Aug 2008, 22:49

Gremlins plug mine back in when I walk away, swear2god........
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Subject: Re: minor annoyance Sun 03 Aug 2008, 06:49