Comments on: Have you noticed …

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:10:57 +0000

Yes

By: Shadow

Shadow — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:37:10 +0000

Yes.

By: steve walsh

steve walsh — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:50:12 +0000

Yes. As Sailorcurt says, attempting to unsubscribe simply verifies your email address as belonging to a human.

Flag the sender as Junk or Spam. That will get it out of your inbox, at least until they switch their address.

By: WineThief

WineThief — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:08:38 +0000

Yes. Almost impossible. For the first time in over 20 years, I’m trying to think of a new email address because of the spam you can’t stop.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:31:41 +0000

Kate – I had that problem with dailygopnews but I kept unsubscribing from them and also kept track on which candidates the emails came from. Since it is an email service, it takes a few times for a particular candidate to stop. Eventually, I think I was taken off the main gop list. But it is work to get off the lists.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:59:10 +0000

I donated in the past election cycle, and started getting emails from “dailygopnews.” I can’t unsubscribe. It seems to me that it’s an email service, and separate GOP candidates or groups use it to send emails. Unsubscribing stops only the ones from each specific group, not from the server. I gave up and report them all to spam.

By: neo

neo — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:45:39 +0000

Sailorcurt:

No. I’ve found that until now, about 4 times out of 5, clicking on “unsubscribe” works just fine. But lately it’s working less often. And by “lately” I mean in the past week or so.

And please see my comment above this one about why I don’t want to block them. Most are companies I sometimes do business with. I just don’t want to get their emails advertising stuff.

Every now and then they give a choice of what type of emails to unsubscribe to. But usually it’s all or nothing.

By: neo

neo — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:41:41 +0000

I have quite a few email addresses I use for different purposes. But I still want to unsubscribe to certain things, even though those things usually are only at one particular email address.

And I don’t want to send the email addresses of these companies to spam, or to block them, because for the most part I want to be able to hear from them in the future if I communicate with them.

By: Karmi

Karmi — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:32:49 +0000

Liz makes great points. I have 3 main email addies – only one get spam. That’s the one I give out for purchases ‘n such.

Also, like Liz says, look at new emails for a real addy – don’t even open those with “jumble of letters & numbers”.

You Netflix is closing … Your payment failed … Someone is using your Home Depot account … etc.

Yeah, check the addy before opening…

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:17:52 +0000

It is useful to have a second email account to use for when you have to give an email address to complete a purchase or whatever. I have been able to stop the political emails by unsubscribing, but they actually have a decent address.

If you see that a web address that is a jumble of letters & numbers, then just let your mail program send it to the spam folder or block it. I think if you try to open the email or contact them, it just increases the spam.

What bugs me is that some sellers send out a ton of emails and then send you paper catalogs. And, if you see something nice in the catalog, it is already sold out on the website.