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Re: Is there something underlying notifications?

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On 2026-05-07 00:18, micky wrote:
> Is there something underlying notifications?
> 
> I am adrift!  I was in Peru for 11 days, and now I'm getting frequent
> notifications of something from the cellular company I used and from the
> computer store where I bought a wireless mouse.
> 
> I could turn off the notifications for each of these, but would there
> still be something sent to me, in the background I guess, and the only
> change would be that I wouldn't be notifiied of it????
> 
> I get maybe 4 a day so over a year there would be 1500 of these in a
> pile somewhere, never recycled, gathering dust, maybe mold and mildew,
> attacting flies, maybe rodents.  After 10 years there would be more than
> 15,000 and even though they are small, they are not that small and I
> envision them seeping out between the front and back sides of the case,
> getting over my hands and clothes, and possibly dripping into the food
> I'm eating.

:-)

> 
> I don't want this to happen.  As I write, I think maybe I could
> dissociate myself from the cellular company, but I'm not associated with
> the computer store.  They just got my phone number because I called them
> before I went there.
> 
> How does one normally stop someone from sending things worthy of
> notification?

The shop is surely not sending "notifications" (for that they would need 
some app installed in your phone), they are sending something else, 
maybe SMSs, and you get a notification for each SMS.

Read what the notification actually says for clues.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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Is there something underlying notifications?  micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-05-06 18:18 -0400
  Re: Is there something underlying notifications? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-05-07 11:06 +0200
    Re: Is there something underlying notifications? micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-05-07 14:11 -0400
      Re: Is there something underlying notifications? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-05-07 20:29 +0200
        Re: Is there something underlying notifications? micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-05-07 17:56 -0400

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