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[stevej37]

Every so often, I get emails relating to health problems with solutions.

I normally click on the 'unsubscribe' link and delete the email.

What about the ones that ask for your email address before you can unsubscribe??
Am I just 'feeding the problem' if I give my email?

[Steve Carlton]

I'd mark it as spam.

[JackDidley]

I put in my email and unsubscribe. It works for abut 2 or 3 weeks. Then I get a few more and I do it again. I'd rather get a few spams every 3 weeks than 10 every day which is what I was getting before I started the unsubscribe thing.

[sc_rufctr]

As a general rule you shouldn't interact in any way with any unsolicited email.

By hitting the unsubscribe button you're actually confirm that your email address is valid.

- Just mark any suspect emails as junk.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

I'd mark it as spam.

Steve if you ever get an email from me about canned pork, please just mark it as Spam.

[stevej37]

Spam it be.

The unsubscribe button doesn't seem to work as it should.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Steve if you ever get an email from me about canned pork, please just mark it as Spam.

Actually, I'd like a canned pork subscription.

[stomachmonkey]

Start using +1 addresses when signing up for stuff.

Most email systems support them.

Let’s say you were signing up for Pelican.

Instead of scott@domain.com enter scott+pelican@domain.com

Any emails from pelican will come in as that address and your providers system will route it to scott@domain.com

Set a rule in your email client to move all email containing pelican in the address to a folder which you’d logically name pelican

Here’s the good part, when you start getting spam at the +1 address that’s NOT from pelican you know they are selling their list.

[dad911]

Legit companies that I once did business with but am no longer interested get an unsubscribe. And that seems to work.

Others get marked as spam.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by dad911

Legit companies that I once did business with but am no longer interested get an unsubscribe. And that seems to work.

Others get marked as spam.

Yes legit companies will 100% honor an unsubscribe.

Most of them will use a legit mass email service that manages the list unsubscribes and they are diligent because spam reporting can get their IPs blacklisted which affects their business so they take it seriously

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by dad911

Legit companies that I once did business with but am no longer interested get an unsubscribe. And that seems to work.

Others get marked as spam.

This!

Most on-line businesses "automatically" sign me up for the newsletter and other crap after I bought from them. On those companies, yep, I will unsubscribe and that is fine.

For pure random spam I just send it to the blocked senders list and that puts all the email from them in a junk folder. I empty that folder once per week afrer a quick perusal of the email in there to be sure no legit email was caught. Then flush em all.