Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Sylvia Else Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email... Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:53:10 +1100 Lines: 27 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net jMWptILFbzMz6Jb6NrhLXwwhtX1tBhbQvf/ZDg6SH5i/QncvlF Cancel-Lock: sha1:+SqW8pAMpd9uNDqZuNLWUWE0zTY= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.individual.net:119 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:10069 ... does it mean 1) Don't send me this specific email again. 2) Don't send me an email with the same subject line again. 3) Don't send me emails that someone in your organisation considers to be of similar content. 4) Don't send me emails that fall into the same finely nuanced category out of the 57 you've managed to think up so far. 5) Don't send me any emails from your organisation. 6) Die die die evil spammer. 7) I intend to disconnect from the internet forthwith, and forever. 8) I confirm that this is a real email address, so please spam me into eternity. Well, I think it means 5, absent some compelling reason for it not to. They seem to think it means 3 or 4, or perhaps even 2. I don't they've tried to construe it as 1, though give them time. Sylvia.