Sunday, April 03, 2005

Spam

Between March 14th and March 31st I recieved 108 spam messages in my gmail inbox. Thats over 7 a day. At this point I decided to unsubscribe to all of them. The tricky thing is that the easy to find unsubscribe link is only for the product being sent to you. There is a second unsubscribe link that is to be put on the master list that is being sold to all the companys who send you the email. You can unsubscribe to the individual companies all you want but unless you unsubscribe to the master list your address will keep being sold to new companys. With 3 days past since the great spamicide I have only recieved 6 new messages. Many of the lists said that it would take up to 10 days (which is bullshit if you ask me) but I wont get to upset until the 10th. When all is said and done, Ive decressed my spam intake by aproxmiatly 64%.

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