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

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On 2016-01-22, Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote:
> On 22/01/2016 3:53 PM, Rich wrote:
>> Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote:
>>> ... 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.
>>
>> Depending upon the disrepute of the sender, it also often can mean #8.
>>
>> I've seen #4 in action, although the way that trick appeared to work
>> for the particular corporate entity is that when one forgot to
>> "uncheck" the checked by default, tiny, hidden, checkbox that said
>> "please send me email offers, etc.", what they actually did was
>> subscribe one's email simultaneously to 57 different lists all served
>> from the same server.  That way as you 'unsubscribed' from each list,
>> it was almost like playing an email version of 'whack-a-mole'.
>>
>>
>
> Also, they can resubscribe you after a while with the virtual certainty 
> that you won't be able to prove, or even be reasonably sure, that you'd 
> ever unsubscribed.

For the last couple of years I've been saving  the "You have been
unsubscribed" web forms for selected offenders.

-- 
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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