My e-mail has probably well over 30,000 messages in it at the moment. I feel your pain. :P
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Christine Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > BOOO....! > > Never used BuyDig, but several years ago, when we were young and young > people still used email, my husband had the foresight to set up a > "junk" email account for us... We never give our personal email > addresses out when shopping, making a donation, setting up login > accounts, etc.. Even the kids' sports teams or other organizations > get the "junk" address... We check it every now & then for something > interesting, but for the most part, that's where our spam is. Which > is good, because I am lax at weeding out email... there are currently > over 5100 unread messages in my inbox, 7340 in the pdml folder, and > over 11,456 in the junk pile... Is that bad? > > :) > -c > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Big Boo to BuyDig for re-subscribing me to their junk-mail despite my >> explicit preferences set long time ago. >> >> I've been using BuyDig as one of the sources of photo equipment since >> 2005, when (IIRC) I bought my *istDS from them. >> >> As some PDMLers may remember, I've recommended them a few times here on >> the list as a mostly reasonable retailer (albeit not without occasional >> idiosyncrasies). >> >> In late June they started sending me their SPAM (aka UCE - Unsolicited >> Commercial E-mails), despite my strict preferences for not receiving any >> promotional and other junk. >> It turned out my preferences were reset to receive all junk. >> This has happenned for the 2nd time (the first time it happened at the >> end of 2008, and I made sure I unsubscribed in 2009). >> >> I know that some PDMLers don't mind if they have to delete a few extra >> spam messages. I do mind it: with the amount of different companies >> with which I shop for my work and for personal purchases, if I were >> receiving their "subscriptions", all I'd be doing is cleaning my >> mailbox. Besides, when there is too much extraneous mail, the important >> messages tend to get lost among the junk occasionally. >> >> At work, I stopped purchasing supplies from a couple of companies who were >> notorious about spamming their customers. >> >> Once more, - big BOO to BuyDig for wasting my time and re-subscribing me >> to their junk mail. >> >> Igor >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
