Re: ot spam

I never do unsubscribe usually, just

      filter, as I pretty much assume the same thing, but usually the
      only real "spam" I get anymore are annoying places I have done
      business with, that felt they could just add me to their mailing
      lists.  Not quite spam, but annoying none the less.

      Most like that do have responsible methods for unsubscribing -
      some do not.  Some I can tell are just broken scripting (usually
      some kludge of asp code usually that doesn't work on anything but
      ie6), usually using some crappy 3rd party marketing "firm", that I
      really can't tell if legit or not, but legit enough to con said
      business into doing "marketing" with them.

      If I could tell their management they're stupid for doing business
      with such a crap org, I would, but none want to hear that nor
      provide an avenue to do so.  Most are non-technical business that
      are likely stupid enough to still use IE for everything and
      wouldn't see a problem anyways (what is linux!?).  Thus I'd rather
      just cause them some grief, but as you said, probably worthless as
      any government initiative, or the government itself to think they
      might do something about it.

      -mb

      On 07/02/2015 12:54 AM, Mark Jarvis wrote:

Years ago I was told that it was

        a poor idea to use the unsubscribe links because 

that

      simply confirms that someone received & read the email &
      moves you up in the worthwhileness rating. I also tend to think
      that believing in the unsubscribe link is in the same category as
      believing that the Do Not Call List stops all junk calls. Yes, a
      few jerks give everyone a bad name.

      -mj-

Michael Butash wrote on 6/26/2015

        9:46 AM:

Good question actually.

          I get some idiot recruiter spam (a car dealership and realtor
          too come to mind) that a few times have tried to use their
          unsubscribe form, and found it broken, which I half suspect on
          purpose (or they had a windoze developer code it and only
          works in ie).  

          Either way an annoyance I can't remove myself from, which I
          take as a violation.  I've love to "give them a referral" for
          their efforts in annoying me.

          -mb

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