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Re: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email...

From Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email...
Date 2016-01-29 10:13 +0100
Organization PostgreSQL and SQLite
Message-ID <l2nrnc-e4e1.ln1@news.chingola.ch> (permalink)
References <dgdjsoFmddmU1@mid.individual.net> <+5242nBTTooWFwH6@ku.gro.lloiff>

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On 2016-01-22, Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> wrote:
> In message <dgdjsoFmddmU1@mid.individual.net>, Sylvia Else 
><sylvia@not.at.this.address> writes
>>... 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.
>
> You forgot 9.  You (the person doing the clicking) clearly don't 
> understand what you are doing, so we'll ignore your request.

That's up there with those services which say that they'll keep your
account alive so that if you change your mind you can get it back
*cough* Facebook *cough*

-- 
An invention needs to make sense in the world in which it's finished,
not the world in which it's started.                  -- Ray Kurzweil

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When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email... Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-22 13:53 +1100
  Re: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email... Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-22 04:53 +0000
    Re: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email... Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-22 19:18 +1100
      Re: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email... RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-22 17:25 +0000
        Re: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email...     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2016-01-22 11:16 -0800
          Re: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email... Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-01-29 10:07 +0100
        Re: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email... Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-22 19:41 -0500
          Re: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email... Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-23 00:39 +0000
      Re: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email... Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-01-29 10:01 +0100
  Re: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email... Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-22 04:59 +0000
  Re: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email... Alan Ralph <usenet@alanralph.fastmail.uk> - 2016-01-22 15:14 +0000
  Re: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email... Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> - 2016-01-22 19:36 +0000
    Re: When you click on the unsubscribe link in an email... Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-01-29 10:13 +0100

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