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Question

Stop email from unwanted organization?

Apr 11, 2015 11:21PM PDT

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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Re: mail
Apr 12, 2015 12:41AM PDT

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

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how do you access your mail?
Apr 12, 2015 1:35AM PDT

By using a browser and webmail, or an email client like thunderbird or Outlook?

For both you can go to the webmail and set up blocking on it. If using email client you just need to set the webmail filter and send to that SPAM folder or TRASH, and it will never download to your email client.

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unsubscribe
Apr 16, 2015 8:31AM PDT

If you look at the wayyy bottom of the emails, there should should be something written regarding unsubscription. The font is tiny so read carefully.