posted on August 15, 2001 09:19:25 AM
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I am in the process of relocating (from Long Island, New York to Bellingham, Washington - WOOHOO!!), so I've been trying to rid myself of as many of those pesky mailing lists as I can.
Despite my clicking where told to, and "unsubscribing" (although I don't remember ever SUBSCRIBING in the first place!), I am still receiving emails from some of these lists.
What are my options? I can't block all my email (I still have customers to attend to and business to do), and I've "unsubscribed" to one list THREE separate times with no results.
Ack. How can I "make the email go away....get it off of my sign-on screen..." (play music here ).
Thanks so much!
---SkorpioGal, soon to be a Pacific NorthWest kind of woman!
posted on August 15, 2001 10:11:00 AM
There was a web site I was browsing last spring that I wish I could find again (I thought I'd bookmarked it, but I hadn't.) It provided an centralized e-mail service whereby you could create a unique e-mail address for each time you gave out your e-mail address on the Internet. Then, if you received spam, you'd know exactly where the spammers got your e-mail address, and simply make that particular e-mail address invalid.
posted on August 15, 2001 10:25:05 AM
You could always change your email address...
I done this several times. Set up a free email address at one of the many sites available. Only give the new email address to those who you want to hear from. After a month or three, you should be able to ignore the other email address...
Another thing I do, is to have several email addresses for different purposes. I have one for my online auction stuff, another email address I give out to people I meet if I'm chatting online. Another I use to subscribe to online subscriptions and newsletters. Another one that I use when I give out when I need to register software, another one for posting to newsgroups, etc...
Between changing my email address and separating my email into categories, I've probably got about 8 different email addresses. The other advantage of this is that if you start receiving unwanted emails at a particular address you probably have a good idea of how the person got your address. Most of the spam or unwanted email I get appears to come from newsgroup postings and from the time I accidently left my email address public on one of peer to peer chat programs such...
posted on August 15, 2001 11:40:20 AM
If you are moving to the Pacific Northwest as you say AND you happen to be going to the Great State of Washington, here's your ticket to fame and fortune:
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) It provided an centralized e-mail service whereby you could create a unique e-mail address for each time you gave out your e-mail address on the Internet. Then, if you received spam, you'd know exactly where the spammers got your e-mail address, and simply make that particular e-mail address invalid.