Nov
22
On a personal email account, instead of having to opt out every email you dont want which is impossible (there are like millions) Why not opt in only the email address you want email from? how come email providers dont do that?
Vernon J. Who? Yahoo doesn't, netzero doesn't.
If they do then why are people still complaining about spam.
Gladis
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Ummmmm they DO!
Well, is service providers started doing this then what will end up happening is a spam bot will grab the emails off of your white list (safe or allow list) and start sending you spam with that sender being a fake sender. You will most likely end up blocking a email address when you block that SPAM and you will end up not receiving any emails at all in the end.
Even if you live outside of the US you can report spam to the US Federal Trade Commission. If they can not handle the spam tracking properly they will forward the spam to the proper authorities.
Not many people know it but SPAM E-mails can be easily dealt with now. The SPAM problem has gotten so bad that the government has set up a agency to investigate and eliminate these type of SPAM emails.
The Federal Trade Commission (www.ftc.gov) has been assigned the responsibility to eliminate these SPAM emails.
All you need to do is forward your SPAM to this email address.
For the subject you can put things like "I can't get rid of this SPAM emails", "No removal / unsubscribe link provided in email", "Suspected web forgery", "Removal link results in more SPAM" etc.
Once you forward your email to that email address the FTC agency will investigate the email in question and hunt down the source of the SPAM (usually a bot) and prosecute their owners.
I have been forwarding my SPAM to them and I do not receive any more SPAM. Doing this really does work. I am no longer scared to give first time visit web pages my email address just to access their content.
Start doing this for a week and after a week you will be SPAM free, I promise.
There are services which work as follows:
1. Someone sends you an email
2. They get an email back saying that they need to fill out a form saying who they are and why you would want their emails (spam bots don't do this well, as most reply-to on spam aren't real)
3. They fill out the form and then you get that notice.
3a. If they don't fill out the form, you never get the email
4. You review the form and say yes you want this person to be able to send you email or not
5. If you approve it, the original email message (1 above) gets forwarded to you
6. If you say no, they delete the email and you never see it and they block all email from that address from now on.
Personally, whenever I see these, I **** them, I **** having to fill out the form and tell the person (who I usually know personally as a friend) that it is me and accept my email gosh darn it!!
Some people actually refuse to do this sort of thing and then you will never see their email, even if it is a real person you would have wanted.
It is much better to just get a good email spam filter that correct blocks emails, that you can teach stuff too and it gets better at filtering.
My current system has reduced my spam to practically nothing (every now and then it asks me if something it gets is spam or not, but never actually forwards the spam).