...I am heartily sick of it. It seems like every company from which I've ever bought anything sends daily emails and weekly catalogs. Also companies I've never bought anything from and have no interest in (I'm talking to you, AT&T U-verse). Lately I've been trying to regain control by unsubscribing from email lists and actively contacting companies to ask to be removed from catalog mailing lists. It's helping. But I really wish there were a way to opt in/out of all those bulky, paper-wasting catalog mailings before they started showing up on the doorstep.
Related, but not really: I get a TON of junk email offering to grow my male member to astounding proportions. Why? Should I start feeling inadequate?
Really, you get junk email even with gmail? I find it's really good about filtering out most junk. But I have to admit, I got a spam email that fooled me today... it was from "Priya Viswanathan" so naturally I opened it!
ReplyDeleteI just went through the exercise of calling to remove myself from mailing lists, after collecting a few months' worth of catalogs. Supposedly there's a website that will do this for you, but it doesn't seem like it works. (Or maybe I just wasn't patient enough.)
Hmm, I use gmail for my "personal" email account and have a hotmail account I use for everything else. Hotmail does a decent job of filtering out the XXXFARMACY.356 type junk mail. But I still get a ton of emails from legit companies that I've bought things from before. Luckily, those emails generally come with an "unsubscribe" button that actually unsubscribes you rather than putting you on a gazillion other lists. So I can't complain too much. And the emails have really been going down since I started hitting unsubscribe.
ReplyDeleteWhat did Priya Viswanathan want? Did she want to enlarge your male member?
You know, email unsusbscribe/opt-out HAS to work properly or the companies can get into a lot of legal trouble. So unsubscribe away.
ReplyDeletePriya Viswanathan had a money-making opportunity for me, but I didn't look too closely -- as soon as I realized it was spam, I cursed the clever spammer who thought of using appropriately ethnic names and deleted the email.
I feel like I've read somewhere in the past that certain "unsubscribe" links from unsavory companies (or "companies") simply confirm that the email address is active, and then you end up getting ten times as much junk mail as before. Those unsavory companies probably aren't too legally inclined anyway.
ReplyDeleteTo continue on this topic, I serendipitously came across this today: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/put-a-stop-to-junkmail-using-your-smartphone-167519. If it works, it would be great!
That does sound pretty amazing, if it works. And you're right, reputable companies will absolutely stick to their privacy policies/unsubscribe/opt out, but I wouldn't click on any link from a company I didn't recognize. I just mark those as spam.
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