Mass email

I regularly get mass emails from political parties in a region I don’t even live in anymore. I’ve tried “unsubscribing”, but it seems they just have a different “mailing list” for each candidate/PAC/ranting nut who wants to send me anything about the upcoming election. It wouldn’t be so bad if my spam filter actually caught them, but usually they just go through. As I understand the CAN SPAM act, political groups are somehow immune from anti-spam laws to an extent… but is there any way I can hold these guys accountable for sending out these mass mails? Maybe submit them for a fee?

Internet email Spam is where some website takes your email address (maybe you filled out a form or subscription with them), then passes your email address around to the world. You end up clearing out dozens of unwanted emails every time you open Outlook. And the more you “unsubscribe” to emails, the more the marketers just pass your email address onto someone else. You can never fully unsubscribe.

And Spam blocking software is not 100% effective, and sometimes takes up lots of memory and dogs out Outlook.

A solution to this madness? Since we have a national “Do Not Call” registry, I wonder if we should have a national “Do not email” registry. This would prevent many of the unwanted SPAM emails “before” they were sent, rather than forcing the recipient to exercise the “plug the leaking dam” routine with emails “after” they have been received.

Thoughts? Do you support this?

If you do, then write your congressperson at congress.org.

I wrote mine.

When it comes to politics? The same old attack adds regardless of how many times they have been debunked? How can anyone truly claim to be a patriot and an American if the only information they get regarding the candidates is from some slanderous mass email?
I’m inclined to agree with you N.R.K.P.

And I wasn’t really talking specifically about any group of people or and specific candidate. You see it in all of them I think.