Depends on the local law. In the European Union they are required to have an unsubscribe link in each mail and stop sending mail after you did unsubscribe. That's all you can do, I'm afraid.
Kees
I hope that this will fit in with the kind of thing that this forum covers. Please forgive me if it isn't. And if you have suggestions about where to find this information, please don't hesitate to guide me.
Here's the situation. I clicked on a link in a message on Facebook from an organization whose views I agree with, but it led to an article from an organization whose views are abhorrent to me. I quickly left it and I didn't click on anything in the article, including the name of their site, but I now am getting mail from them, including one (today) whose greeting indicates that they believe that I am one of them. I believe that they are a real, legitimate organization, not spammers, but I want nothing to do with them, and I most fervently don't want them or anyone else to believe that I do.
I would just unsubscribe, but I've read that doing that would just tell them that they've reached a real person and allow them to persist in emailing me. To date I've just marked them as "junk" (though the junk filter seems not to put the messages in that folder) and deleted them. I really don't want those people to think that I support their efforts. I've found that even when I just sign an online petition or send a contribution to someone whose views are akin to mine, I then get tons of mail from all over the country asking for my support in one form or another. I'm afraid that if f I don't get rid of the emailings from the group with the offensive views, I'll be inundated by more groups who agree with them, as well as be pegged as subscribing to their cause and agreeing with their opinions.
Can someone advise me about what to do? At one point I would have thought that unsubscribing was the answer, but now I really don't know.
Thank you for your help. Again, if this is not the place to come for this advice, please forgive me.
Jenny

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