BS: Help - I Don't Want Their e-mails

Subject: BS: Help - I Don't Want Their e-mails
From: eddie1
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 10:50 AM

Over the past four weeks I've had about 5 e-mails from a company whose e-mail address is more or less the subject of the message – ie    Windows Firewall , PDF Support [e-mail]
There are several blue clicky things and a website to unsubscribe of which I am rather suspicious and reluctant to visit - http://get-internet--new.net/. They also provide an address which does nothing to encourage me.

Plaza Neptuno, local #7
Via ricardo J Alfaro, Tumba Muerto
Panama Ciudad
Republica de Panama

Any ideas how to get rid of them please

Eddie

Subject: RE: BS: Help - I Don't Want Their e-mails
From: Paul Burke
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 10:57 AM

Delete key? You don't HAVE to read them or click on the links. If you're using a web mail reader, maybe they have filters somewhere, I don't know. If you're using Outofluck Express change to Thunderbird (free), which has message filters and you can simply delete them as they arrive. Or use Mailwasher to scan the mail first and delete unwanted stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Help - I Don't Want Their e-mails
From: eddie1
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 11:14 AM

Thanks Paul - yes, I have a spamfilter and I do delete them, I just don't want the sods and am very suspicious of their way of opting out!

Eddie

Subject: RE: BS: Help - I Don't Want Their e-mails
From: GUEST,Sawzaw
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 11:22 AM

#1 Get a new email address.
#2 Never use your new email address except to emailt friends and family.
#3 Get a Free Yahoo mailbox.
#4 Use the Yahoo address when emailing to anyone other than friends and family.
#5 When your Yahoo mailbox gets too cluttered up with spam, abandon it and get a new one.

Subject: RE: BS: Help - I Don't Want Their e-mails
From: Becca72
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 11:23 AM

Add them to your "blocked" list and they won't come through at all. Of course, they will just send spam using a different email address...

Subject: RE: BS: Help - I Don't Want Their e-mails
From: curmudgeon
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 11:27 AM

Report them as spam to your ISP

Subject: RE: BS: Help - I Don't Want Their e-mails
From: eddie1
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 12:19 PM

Thanks for the ideas folks - I think I'll go for blocking them.

Eddie

Subject: RE: BS: Help - I Don't Want Their e-mails
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 12:21 PM

#1 Get a new email address.
#2 Never use your new email address except to emailt friends and family.
#3 Get a Free Yahoo mailbox.
#4 Use the Yahoo address when emailing to anyone other than friends and family.
#5 When your Yahoo mailbox gets too cluttered up with spam, abandon it and get a new one.

It doesn't work that way. They find you anyway. And the "use and discard" approach is a poor one all around. (i.e., see the state of the planet right now and the overflow of our landfills).

You're better off getting an account that you can effectively manage. Use one for friends, another for business, that is fine. If you have an account from your Internet provider, chances are very good that while you can download mail into you computer and whatever gets there you're stuck with (you can't mark it as "spam" to block once it has been delivered, you would have to put a filter on your resident program, a less effective treatment IMO). If you log onto the web version of the IP provider mail that's where you can do more management to keep out unwanted stuff. Filters on the server are superior to filters in your computer. My Earthlink email software is set so that I only get email from people I have already put on my address list. My personal email is set with those friends and family, and if someone writes who isn't listed, they receive an automated mail explaining that they must submit a request to be added to my address list. I go into the web account periodically and deal with the suspcious mail box and dump the spam box.

I have one account for business that isn't so heavily filtered because there are companies I do business with that sometimes have a variety of addresses. Anything that looks suspicious lands is the suspcious mail mentioned above, a special box reached via the web mail--they won't put it in my regular inbox to let it download into my computer. If I move it to the inbox I can choose to add it to my address list or not.

I'd say you have to evaluate the possibilities: decide if everyone you deal with is competent enough to keep changing to your "new" address after you abandon an old one. Chances are, you'll miss some and lose them altogether. You're better off managing a couple of addresses well than leaving a trail of discarded trashed accounts. The answer to your immediate question is to open your mail only in the web version for a while, and when this mail you don't want turns up in your inbox online mark it as spam and that should block it from coming through to your computer in the future.

Yahoo has a robust spam filter, as does Google (Gmail) so if you choose a free account you can manage them in the same way you would one from Comcast or Earthlink or whoever provides your Internet. But you have to pay yahoo a yearly fee if you want to use the POP3 downloadable feature (into Outlook or Pegasus or Eudora or my favorite, Mozilla Thunderbird). G-mail lets you download into your email program, and depending on how you set it, either one of these can keep a copy on their server or wipe it once you have downloaded.

Hope this helps.

SRS