Yeah, but that all sounds like a lot more work than occasionally
grumbling about why won't they follow through on their threat to drop me
from their email list if I don't respond.
I guess maybe "validate" is the wrong word. The emails are sort of the
"This is the last email you will receive from us unless you respond
immediately" variety.
That's why I'm deliberately not responding, including not responding
with any kind of "unsubscribe".
I just think it's kind of dumb when I get repeated "last warnings".
From: steve harley
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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