DISQUS

thefutureisred · 5 months ago

Perfect timing. My e-mail -- the one I only use for personal correspondence too -- was recently added to an e-mail list by a friend of a friend. Someone I've met, but don't know. So not cool.

I hope you don't mind I'll be copying sections of your letter and sending it to her.

Brett Borders · 5 months ago

TheFutureIsRed,

For me, that's the worst feeling. Adding my e-mail to a list without asking me is like adding my cellphone number to an autodialer.

Feel free to copy what you need. It may hurt the person's feelings, but it usually works.

B. McAllister · 5 months ago

Better than what a friend does...

He uses a different unconnected email address and 'replies' to the email with a request to be removed, as well as CC'ing any email address that was visible ih the original forwarded email, but this time, he changes the original forwarded content (leaving all the >> and stuff alone). He changes it to something that is extremely personal ("Have you tried XYZ to deal with your herpes? blah blah blah")

Usually people on the email stop forwarding them.. but I think your way is better and more direct.

chill music · 5 months ago

Well, I just delete them.
If there are thousands of mails coming from one person I remind him or her on a friendly basis (first) to stop that:-)

Nishadha Silva · 5 months ago

I guess your approach is ok for non tech savvy people but I think you should be firm about this issue when dealing with tech savvy people. I work in an IT company with more than 700 employees most of which are Software Engineers. But I still get mails like this from them. A blunt firm response usually ends all mails chain or otherwise

Asswass · 5 months ago

Why can't you flag your aunt's email address? send it to the spam box?

Aunt Polly · 5 months ago

This is bad advice for dealing with people you actually know. The person is sending you something because they are being inclusive and you return the favor with exclusion. It doesn't matter the content of the mail, you have plenty of ways to filter without telling the person, in essence, to stop spamming you.

The person thinks the content they are sending is interesting or funny and by forwarding it makes a judgement that you will like it too. To respond that not only do you not like, you think the person is wasting your very valuable mailbox space is a pretty big insult.

If you don't know the person or don't care to insult them, go ahead and follow this advice. You can argue all you want that the spammer is showing poor etiquette but part of social etiquette is tolerating the attention of others. Be gracious to the people in your life.

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