Thanks.No.
Posted on May 24, 2006
You know those emails that you get from a friend or relative, where it’s to you and about half the world? Oftentimes, the email instructs you to forward this on to everyone you know in the next 10 minutes or you obviously don’t care about children or puppies or your family or whatever. It might even threaten bad luck to you for the rest of your life if you don’t forward it.
Generally, it’s a waste of bandwidth. If you don’t know, your friends and/or relatives put your email address at risk by sending it to everyone they know, because that’s one way spammers get your email.
Now, there’s a way to handle this issue, with a site called Thanks.No. Simply reply to the email with this link and perhaps the site’s suggested response:
Hi there, beloved friend of this email recipient:
Please visit http://thanksno.com/
Because this person likes getting personal messages from you, but doesn’t want any more email like this, please.
Love,
ThanksNo.com
The website also says:
In any case, you might want to go back and have another look at the email they’re replying to. They asked you to visit here because, while they love getting one-on-one, personal messages from you, they really don’t want to receive more messages like the one you just sent. Cool?
Thanks Tony, for the link! This is one of many ways that spammers get your email address and Tony also shares some details on how to avoid spam and be pro-active against it in his recent post titled Anti-Spam 101.
The techniques he discusses are many of the things I did at a church about a year ago where spam was getting out of control and thru education and providing users with an alternate web/disposable email address, we virtually eliminated spam for 40 or so users. There was one problem child where the spam continued, but I suspect the safe practices that were taught were not being followed.
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