Spam today, they say "gone forever".

Legacy_user

I've been called a few things in my time, today it was thought I was a spammer, huh, wouldn't know where to start. However, when you get spam, no matter how many times you either unsubscribe/delete or swear, it still comes back

That is until now. another website I have discovered is called :-

https://www.otherinbox.com/unsubscriber/

(oh, I collect these form internet magazines) and once installed, instead of clicking on "spam" and hoping it goes for good, this time you click on it and redirect it to the "Unsubscribe" folder which by now has appeared in your "My Folders" section. That I believe really does put an end to 'em.

I forgot to say it works on AOL/Yahoo/Gmail

John_Gray

Unsubscribing from spam emails is a fairly certain way of notifying the spammers that your email address is valid and operational, so they can pass your address to "all their friends", and thus you can receive lots and lots more spam.

The Law of Unintended Consequences applies.

gb12345

John_Gray wrote: »

Unsubscribing from spam emails is a fairly certain way of notifying the spammers that your email address is valid and operational, so they can pass your address to "all their friends", and thus you can receive lots and lots more spam.

The Law of Unintended Consequences applies.

++1

This tool is just an automated way of increasing the number of spam emails that you receive.

[Deleted User]

islandman wrote: »

I believe really does put an end to 'em.

I'd uninstall this if you already have it. As others have said, you are merely confirming that the spam is received and are bound to get more as a result.

forgotmyname

I got a few of the sob stories and offers to give me loads of money on an AOL email account. I was bored so i replied to one and eventually after making them jump through hoops to get to speak to me. I gave them the contact details of the local police station.

Seems they were not impressed with that. The amount of spam did increase but it was a spam account i only allowed email address i listed 1st.
Anything not on the list got rejected.

tronator

islandman wrote: »

I've been called a few things in my time, today it was thought I was a spammer, huh, wouldn't know where to start. However, when you get spam, no matter how many times you either unsubscribe/delete or swear, it still comes back

That is until now. another website I have discovered is called :-

www.otherinbox.com/unsubscriber/

(oh, I collect these form internet magazines) and once installed, instead of clicking on "spam" and hoping it goes for good, this time you click on it and redirect it to the "Unsubscribe" folder which by now has appeared in your "My Folders" section. That I believe really does put an end to 'em.

I forgot to say it works on AOL/Yahoo/Gmail

"A third party service is requesting permission to access your Google Account.

In order to authorize a third party service to access your account, you must sign in."


No way I would use this. Gmail is quite good in filtering Spam and the rest Thunderbird catches.

esuhl

It would be easier to just set a rule to filter emails by email address (or domain), wouldn't it...?

Lum

John_Gray wrote: »

Unsubscribing from spam emails is a fairly certain way of notifying the spammers that your email address is valid and operational, so they can pass your address to "all their friends", and thus you can receive lots and lots more spam.

This does depend on who it's from. If it's a reputable company that you've voluntarily given your email address to (e.g. Amazon) then the unsubscribe will generally be honoured. When it's the Prince of Nigeria wanting to sell you viagra in exchange for your bank details, the unsubscribe button will just get you more spam as stated above.

This is why so many people are campaigning for double opt-in before people can be added to legit mailing lists, because people are rightly afraid of the unsubscribe link.

System

I have unsubscribed from this now, thanks.