SPAM EMAILS
We have looked at how to deal and get rid of those annoying Facebook Notifications that seems to fill up your mailbox any time you
open it. I hope you have put that to action? If not, go check out last month's
postings on this blog and go find the title. But if you live in your briefcase
and want it on the go, two words; spam it.
But there is another aspect of unwanted
solicitations from sites that we want to deal with. There is a premise for this
because some might look at the title of this article and wonder why we have to
sign up to something we don't want in the first place? Several reasons:
• We signed up, we thought we "might" want
it or we thought we needed it. Don't be shocked if a majority of people fall
under this banner. But as it turned out, it was not what they were looking for
but now they are stuck with ezines coming in daily or weekly. Did I hear you
say unsubscribe? Read the next bullet point.
• They lied to us. They assured us that they would
not release our emails to a third party but you suddenly notice that ever since
you signed up you have been getting some funny and strange emails that you did
not sign up for and are more or less spam emails.
Some only told us that might release your emails to
partners. What they did not say was that their "partners" equaled
half of Asia in population. Some actually traded with their email lists and
your mail happened to be in the list.
• Besides, have you never tried unsubscribing and it
just didn't, or am I the only one that such has happened to? And one thing with
this is that even if they say they have "removed your mail from their
list"; just know that it is the primary ezine/promo you initially signed
up for that you might stop receiving (if you are lucky). The fact is your mail
is still on their list and they will still trade with it and you will still be
getting funny and strange emails.
Your
Problem Solver is Here
Now that we have gotten the why did you subscribe to
them in the first place outadaway, let your trusty solution
finder, your problem solver, your code breaker, your.....(rambling...).
What
to Do
Create
Your Own Spam Email Collector
FAQ
• What is a
Spam Email?
It is an email specifically created to
"give" to sites you know next to nothing about, you just want to try
out, or you suspect will open the floodgates of ezines/promos and sell you to
the highest bidder without blinking.
• Why do you
set it up?
Really? Is that a question or are you just joining
the conversation?
You set it up just to keep it handy for such sites
or even people. This is quite an interesting question (come to think of it). Do
you remember how you use to wish some people did not know your address or phone
number? Or how you see some and only want to meet or come across them on the
way to somewhere but never near where you are coming from or where you are
going? Or how some people will ask you for your room number/phone number/ dorm/
faculty/name and its as if an invisible hands just wrapped its finger round
your throat and you grimace because you don't want to ( I mean; you can't) say
a word? Well, this is what the spam email is for.
-it is the wrong address.
- it is the wrong room number/phone number/ dorm/
faculty/name.
- it is uhuru.
- it is freedom.
• Do you like
Create your own Spam Email?
Only if you dropped out from university and own a
fortune 500 company, or maybe Yahoo is selling and you buy a piece of digital
property.
Take any typical free email service, use Gmail (they
always have this ticker that snickers at how they have weight issues and
increasing in size and are proud about it). Sign up a new free email account
and let it always be handy so that you can give the creep "your" email
address rather than you Blackberry PIN.
The
Good News
You can use it to go through the initial process of
signing up for sites and if the site is any good, all you then have to do is
log on and change your email settings.
Like if sites were guys (let's not say they a re
clingy girls), and you don't know whether you should invite them home or not;
why risk it? Give them the Spam email and if they are any good, invite them to
your home (primary email).
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