Technology & Social Media Unsubscribing Emails

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  1. MTR

    MTR Well-Known Member

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    I can't get over how many emails I unsubscribe each week.
    From property, health products, cosmetics, sex toys (got your attention, just joking), woodworking tools - don't know how I got that one? and many many more.....most rubbish

    Even worse when you can not unsubscribe. Had a few of these, very painful.

    I am sure I am not the only one that does this every week.

    MTR:)
     
    MTR, 28th Nov, 2016
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  2. Phase2

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    Just mark them as spam as they come in... easier than trying to unsubscribe.
     
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  3. Ross Forrester

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    I created a rule in Outlook - every email with word "unsubscribe" goes to junk.

    I also have another rule that sends every email with a "cc" to me into another folder.

    It was the only thing that stopped them.
     
    Ross Forrester, 28th Nov, 2016
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  4. wylie

    wylie Moderator Staff Member

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    I have unsubscribed all the stuff I've joined over the years (except those I really want to get).

    I don't click unsubscribe on anything that I don't recall joining in case it is an invitation for me to click into some scam email.

    What really annoys me is that last week I responded to the regular pop up that asks for my ideas on how to improve realestate.com. I usually don't respond but I wanted to suggest that we have the option to search for "deck" and a few other search items that seems obvious to me, but that I cannot search for.

    I also completed an eBay questionnaire after getting some help. I never go past any survey asking "how did we rate helping you today" because it often tries to invite me to give details in order to win something, and then I cop emails from every Tom, Dick and Harry. I've been caught with that old chestnut before (years ago) and don't fall for it.

    I don't know if it is merely coincidence that I did click on "help us to help you" type of surveys, or if this is random, but since then, I'm getting rubbish emails and spam every day.

    I ignore it, delete it, do not respond, but its annoying.

    So, no more helpful "what can we do to improve" surveys for me.
     
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  5. D.T.

    D.T. Specialist Property Manager Business Member

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    I get hardly any - but I'm very careful with not signing up to any dodgy sites.

    Also have very good filter software :)
     
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  6. Dan Donoghue

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    That's a brave move. I couldn't adopt such a blanket option personally. What happens if someone sends you a genuine email with the word unsubscribe in it?

    ie one from the wife: "Hey honey, can you please unsubscribe me from my TV week subscription?"
     
    Dan Donoghue, 28th Nov, 2016
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  7. Peter_Tersteeg

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    Not a bad strategy overall. I check my junk email every couple of days, so I'd still get most false positives.

    The real benefit is you'd clear up the incoming emails on a massive scale, which is a major cause of stress for many people in business.
     
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    Just look at junk once a day. You pretty much know straight away which ones are real and which ones are just rubbish.
     
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    Telstra seems to have upgraded the email service,they pre-mark all the spam and one click it's all gone..
     
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    My email address is now coming up to being almost 20yrs old and it suffers from that. It's been sold so many time prior to privacy acts etc that it gets spammed quite badly. It also gets used as a "reply to/sender" of spam although it's not coming from me - I'm a russian bride looking for loving husband :p. It's almost at the stage where I need to give it up but I've had it so long I don't want to so I have careful rules to filter out most of the crap and a second email that I use very sparingly for pure business so I am aware of important stuff.
     
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  11. Dan Donoghue

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    Yeah fair call, I can't remember the last time I looked through my junk, god knows how many false positives I have missed :).
     
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    OH MY GOD, I just reread that!!!!!
     
    Dan Donoghue, 28th Nov, 2016
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    I blacklist everything then white list from there. Works reasonably well except there are some business contacts I have listed who end up in the junk mail. Spammers have ruined email just like telemarketers have ruined mobile communications
     
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    There is an awful lot of spam email going around - and if you open them, and unsubscribe, it simply seems to register you as a "real" email ... and you get hammered worse.

    I'm just deleting without opening and, after 2 months, they are finally slowing down
     
    Lizzie, 29th Nov, 2016
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