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Ted in NE-OH · Feb 3, 2017

I get a lot of junk mail and seems that the more I opt out to stop them the more I get. Anyone else have that experience ?

Mike(NEOhio) · Feb 3, 2017

Yes. I usually just delete them but when I unsubscribe I seem to get more. Most of those go to a service and not the sender. I keep a list to see if they come back.

Bob · Feb 3, 2017

Unless it's a legit business you've dealt with and given them your email address, clicking on the "opt out" link just confirms they've reached a real human/a valid email address and rather than stopping the emails, they will simply add it to an email list they sell for $$$ and you'll get a factor of ten more emails.

You didn't mention who your email provider is, if local they may be able to add a spam filter to your account for a few bucks a month, or get a free Outlook or Gmail account where there's a lot of filtering for FREE.

onefarmer · Feb 4, 2017

Yes clicking unsubscribe just adds you to there list of real addresses.

I like gmail. They have a really good spam filter. If I mark a message spam it goes to the spam folder forever. If something not spam gets filtered mark it as not spam and it will be not be spammed again.

chuck2015 · Feb 4, 2017

(quoted from post at 21:11:27 02/03/17) I get a lot of junk mail and seems that the more I opt out to stop them the more I get. Anyone else have that experience ?

I use thunderbird which can be "taught" to intercept all email designated as spam and put them in the junk folder. Once setup it works quite well.

504 · Feb 5, 2017

Never hit that unsubscribe button. You can go to your internet provider and change your setting to get rid of a lot of spam.(and while there you may find emails that you want but your provider has blocked.)

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