“Delightful, life-affirming, money-saving marketing e-mails.”

Oh, fer cryin’ out loud! (Screenshot by BobbaLew.)

Last night Yr Fthfl Srvnt plowed through his many “junk” e-mails, hoping to reduce the number by “unsubscribing.”
I hafta pore through ‘em lest I miss something valid. Occasionally valid e-mails get “junked” despite my never labelling their senders as “junk.”
(MAC calls ‘em “junk,” I guess. Windoze calls ‘em “spam.” —And never the twain shall meet.)
I “unsubscribed” a while ago, but they were piling up again. Order something online, and the deluge begins.
When “unsubscribing,” some allow me to say I never signed up — which is true, but it seems just ordering something online signs me up whether I wanna or not.
I ordered a Lamborghini teeshirt online from RedBubble for my niece’s teenage son in Fort Lauderdale — he’s old enough to prefer Lambos over Hess toys.
So now RedBubble is deluging me with offers. I happened to order a sofa pet-protector from OverStock.com, so now they began showering me.
Gotta stop!
Every day I delete 89 bazilyun “junkers” from my local e-mail. And “unsubscribing” is usually a minute or more.
Most are plebeian, but some want survey input. Like I gotta explain why I don’t want “delightful, life-affirming, money-saving marketing e-mails.”
GET REAL, dudes!
Yer wasting my time = I got better things to do. Every day I gotta trash 89 bazilyun “junkers.”
My brother in northern DE tells me the value of a person is determined by the number of e-mails they get. If that’s true I must be vastly important — unless it’s referring to valid e-mail. I get about 5-10 valid per day, plus stuff that sneaks by my “junk” filter. I have two “junk” filters. The porn and virus-links get junked out in cyberspace, i.e. before they get to my local e-mail.
“Local” is on this machine; that has junk filtration too = the second barrier.
Sometimes virus-links get to my local: immediately trashed. Sometimes valid e-mail goes to “junk.” I’ve even had it happen out in cyberspace.
I depend on webmail working — it usually does. I hardly ever look at it; only when I travel.
I go through my local “junk” to weed out stuff that shouldn’t be in there; although I have trashed the entire kibosh — one fell swoop.
All-of-a-sudden RedBubble was blasting me with e-mail; they were appearing as “junk.” OverStock.com was also blasting me. I figgered it was about time to start “unsubscribing.”
At-long-last, “Wright-Brothers” flying stuff is “unsubscribed.” Bomber-jackets, Mustang clocks, wooden airplane models, WWI propellers. Why would I ever want that? All because years ago I purchased a mahogany model of a TWA Lockheed Super-G Constellation, to me the greatest airplane ever made. And I got it from “Wright-Brothers.”
I gotta blow at least two minutes to unsubscribe Wright Brothers, versus 10-15 seconds per e-mail trashing the blizzard from Wright Brothers.
So finally the deed is done — and a second time. No more Wright Brothers, Overstock, or RedBubble — I hope. My first try was unsubscribing other stuff which amazingly hasn’t reappeared.
It never ends. In a month-or-so I’ll hafta do it again for the online order locations I used, but never signed up for their “delightful, life-affirming, money-saving marketing e-mails.”