[WEB4LIB] FW: RE: Preferred public email accounts

[Thomas Dowling]

At 11:51 AM 10/4/2002 -0700, Louise Alcorn wrote:
>For about two months preceding my departure, I made a point of using the 
>"unsubscribe" links at the bottom of most junk emails.  I noticed multiple 
>emails being produced from the same lists, which I never remembered 
>signing up for (of course).  Once I'd been persistent about this, my 
>number of overall Bulk Mails went down significantly, and has mostly 
>stayed down.

You've been lucky.  The general rule of thumb is never to use those "Click 
here to unsubscribe" links.  Most spam services actually use those 
responses to verify that your address is valid and put it onto higher 
priority spam lists.


Thomas Dowling
Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu