On 2010-05-13 10:43 , John Sessoms wrote:
I've got several commercial organizations that continually send me
email, which I don't try to "unsubcribe" because I think it just
validated the email address for them.
in these cases, they got your email address from you, so it has already
been "validated" and a second validation is probably harmless to your
privacy
to unsubscribe to these, i do the following:
1) verify they are sending from their servers, or through a service that
is nominally legit (one of several "opt-in" bulk email providers that i
have come to recognize)
2) use the unsubscribe link, then save a pdf of the page that says i've
unsubscribed to a receipts folder
3) move the email to an "unsubscribe-requested" mailbox
if i get a subsequent email from them, i research to find a phone number
at the organization, call them, and politely state the date that i
requested removal from their email list, the fact that i've just gotten
another email, and request that they manually take care of it; this has
always worked
i have other strategies for some other types of not-quite-spam behavior;
some types of email impell me to just make a call without attempting to
use the unsubscribe; generally i get a startled but responsive person at
the other end, and the email stops
in the case of email addresses that have clearly leaked to spammers from
what should have been a private database, i attempt to alert the org to
which i gave that address; i get all kinds of reactions from attempts to
explain to me that i can't possibly be sure they are the source, to
outright denials that a leak of my email address could have occurred
(the worst of this type were Backpacker Magazine and software developer
Enfocus); some, however are helpful and will even admit that a security
breach has taken place
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