On Wed 14 Dec 2016 22:29:36 NZDT +1300, Peter Simmonds wrote: > Trademe > Green Party "Greenweek" > VM ware symposium or whatever > AA deals that don't actually work... > > Neither one of these ba$t@rds give any option (that work) of opting > out of this spam!
That's the perfect reason why you need a gazillion email addresses. Or at least one for each half dozen max online shops, and anpther one for each bigger thing. Basically, you want to be in a position to change/delete any address at any time without loosing anything you care about. I'm routinely getting spammed suddenly twice a week after years of silence because I ordered a PC part there once. When I tell them to stop it (no need to be friendly) the sh*ts tell me about their new website 2 years later... and take that as an opportunity to start it up again... Secret email address for online banking is the number 1 phishing protection (unless you're clueless on Microsoft or Android and get your address book swiped all the time). You have one gmail for absolutely everything? Why not let google track you every single email of the way and allow everone else to link you into everything you do...? Thunderbird has native (no plugin) filter tools that allow you to match emails and take certain actions. I advise you to never delete, but move into a separate folder. You will get your filters wrong... And some actions plain don't work, like forward with attachments included if you set download-attachment-on-demand. Been buggy for 7 years. The downside of getting too carried away with TB filtering is that you then become dependent on TB. You can still only access your email from one client place. That's why I prefer to do my filtering with procmail, which is far more elaborate and capable than any mail client, and then I can choose which MUA I want to use and not create a dependency. All MUAs suck so flexibility trumps. procmail has been stable for 20+ years, or try maildrop. Do save a copy of all incoming email into a folder named year-month, even when you think you have your filters right, you'd be surprised what use you find for it, but you can't do that with TB. Other methods include phoning AA 0800, explaining why you've had enough, threatening a few complaints to xyz and making it crystal clear that you do not ever wish to get spammed again. Or collect evidence and make a formal complaint to the watchdog if you can be bothered. In my experience only talking to them fixes it. I used to tell them yearly I don't want their newsshit, they got it, and with every membership renewal it was back to newsshit. That's a deliberate system design!! With NZ businesses I adopted a policy of emailing them friendly once, and afterwards letting rip in a rude way with whatever means available - I've damn well had enough. They do tend to get the point after that. If I give them a bad day then they should have put the legally required procedures into place earlier. No sympathies. Surely the Greens have a no-spam party policy? Faceplanting that they don't follow it themselves might get some interesting entertainment... HTH, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
