It can be tedious setting them up in the early days and it certainly pays to check your ‘deleted’ folder occasionally to make sure you’re not accidentally deleting friendly mail.Īs a point of interest, I’m sure they’ve made some adjustments now but Hotmail is/was a spam magnet (one reason many corporate firewalls disallow email from Hotmail email accounts!!).Ĭonversely, in four years of having a gmail address, I’ve received about three spam messages and they were very cleverly constructed. For example, I expect I will NEVER receive legitimate email with the subject line containing the word ‘Pharmaceutical’ so I have a filter in place to automatically delete mails with that word in the subject. It’s because marking something as Spam only identifies one particular source and ‘blacklists’ that source (and hence why it can hurt legitimate senders if you mark them incorrectly).įar better to learn to filter emails with keywords in the subject. Just because you mark something as spam doesn’t mean you won’t get a very similar spam the following day.
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Something worth doing too is learning how to apply filters. Fortunately, a few moments of thought (“is this email legitimate?”) and the simple rules above should make it fairly clear on when it is and is not safe to unsubscribe.įor spam, look into any of a number of anti-spam solutions and/or filters provided by your email program or ISP.Īnd never use the “This is Spam” button on email you asked for. It’s unfortunate we even have to think about these things, but the fact is, spam continues to be a problem. If you’ve never heard of the sender and have no relationship with whatever is being promoted or discussed in the email, then it’s likely spam, and you should not use the unsubscribe link.If you subscribed to a newsletter, clicked “yes, send me more info”, or have some kind of a business relationship with the entity sending you email (such as having purchased something from them in the past), then it’s probably legitimate mail, and you should use the unsubscribe link.So, there are things you should unsubscribe from, and there are things you should never unsubscribe from. You don’t want to click on any links within, so there’s no need. If you can tell that the email is spam, on the other hand, you don’t need to open it at all. If the email is legitimate, then of course you’ll need to open the email to see and click on the legitimate unsubscribe link. As long as your mail interface doesn’t display images by default (one of the ways that spammers can track you), there’s nothing wrong with taking a peek.
With most modern email programs it’s safe to open messages, regardless of whether they’re spam or not. When you click on “this is spam” for legitimate email, it may actually cause other people - people who actually want it - to stop getting it. However… Do unsubscribe from things you asked forĪs a newsletter publisher myself, I do want to emphasize that when you’re ready to stop receiving a legitimate mailing, a mailing that you subscribed to, you do want to use the unsubscribe link.ĭo not click “this is spam” for legitimate email. That helps the service automatically identify spam for you in the future, and is by far the safest, most effective approach to dealing with spam using tools you probably already have at your disposal. Instead, click on the “This is Spam” button in your email program or interface to get the email out of your inbox and train that service as to what spam looks like. Thus this rule of thumb: “unsubscribing” from spam only gets you more spam. The act of clicking that “unsubscribe” link actually confirms to the spammer that your email address is a real, valid email address with a real person reading it.įrom the spammer’s perspective, it allows them to say the equivalent of “We got us a live one!”Īnd once they know the email address is legitimate, they’ll start sending you MORE, not less, spam. Like I said, spam is sent out at random and to email addresses that are both legitimate and not. You might be asking, “If I’m not subscribed, why is there an unsubscribe link?” In fact, it’ll likely make matters worse. Clicking on that unsubscribe link will not help. This is important: since you haven’t subscribed, there’s nothing to unsubscribe from, even if there’s an “unsubscribe” link. You’re just getting it like many people do: randomly.
What you are getting is most likely spam.
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