E-mail lists

[Jeff Lebowski]

I have a former acquaintance who includes me in periodic e-mail updates (new car photos, new job, baby, etc.). I am not sure how I rate in this exclusive club since it was only a brief, casual acquaintance (don't even go there, sickos). At this point I would like to stop getting the e-mails, but it is kind of awkward to say "Hey, I am just not that interested in your life - please remove me from your list." I can't think of a diplomatic way to resolve this. I suppose I could just add her to my junk mail filter.

Haven't people heard of Facebook? Weird.

[Babs]

Is there any reason you'd ever want to hear from this old flame person? I always just set it so it bounces back to them with some kind of permanent out-of-office reply. They take you off the list pretty quick.

[TripletDaddy]

I have a former acquaintance who includes me in periodic e-mail updates (new car photos, new job, baby, etc.). I am not sure how I rate in this exclusive club since it was only a brief, casual acquaintance (don't even go there, sickos). At this point I would like to stop getting the e-mails, but it is kind of awkward to say "Hey, I am just not that interested in your life - please remove me from your list." I can't think of a diplomatic way to resolve this. I suppose I could just add her to my junk mail filter.

Haven't people heard of Facebook? Weird.

I have the same problem with unwanted emails....but they come from my sister-in-law, FIL, and people my ward.

I just use the delete button and chalk it up to the cost of doing business.

[bluegoose]

When you figure out the answer Lebowski, I would love to hear it.

I've got several people from our ward that circulate political emails on a daily basis. They obviously think I lean toward their party line, as these are pretty extreme. Some of them are downright cruel and hate-filled. I usually read them prior to deleting them, just so I can get a feel for what the current news is.

I would love to tell them to buzz off and keep their crap to themselves. Alas, I am not really inclinced to do that for several reasons. So I just continue to mock their stupidity and hastily judge them for their un-Christlike attitudes.

[TheBYUGuy]

I have the same problem with unwanted emails....but they come from my sister-in-law, FIL, and people my ward.

I just use the delete button and chalk it up to the cost of doing business.

I have a general policy that I don't do business with family or ward members. I would make a terrible MLMer.

I do think that the delete button is the quickest and easiest way to handle this.

[JohnnyLingo]

I do think that the delete button is the quickest and easiest way to handle this.

Well, if he's got Gmail, he can create a filter that will take all e-mail from that address and keep it out of the inbox.

[UteStar]

A bunch of friends and I will send each other emails and one of our friends will always forward jokes and other things like that. On one of his emails, one of my friends replied with this: "Please remove me from your spam list. Thanks!"

We haven't seen any forwarded emails from him in a while.

[SteelBlue]

Haven't people heard of Facebook? Weird.

No kidding. And facebook just got a ton better now allowing you to exclude people from your status updates and photos by individual name or (even better) by list name. I have my friends divided into tidy lists making it easy to exclude people that you only added out of courtesy such as your friend in this story.

[U-Ute]

Just start spamming the list with MLM opportunities.

Reply all: "Hey! It was great to hear from you, and I'm glad all is well with your dog Pooky. I'm sure you'd like to make sure she has everything in the world you can give her. In that regard, have I got an opportunity for you!"

U-Ute

[byu71]

I have a former acquaintance who includes me in periodic e-mail updates (new car photos, new job, baby, etc.). I am not sure how I rate in this exclusive club since it was only a brief, casual acquaintance (don't even go there, sickos). At this point I would like to stop getting the e-mails, but it is kind of awkward to say "Hey, I am just not that interested in your life - please remove me from your list." I can't think of a diplomatic way to resolve this. I suppose I could just add her to my junk mail filter.

Haven't people heard of Facebook? Weird.

I just send out a quarterly response to all e-mail addresses I have received e-mails from during the quarter.

I just say, "you should know whether I want e-mails from you or not. If you aren't smiling right now but wondering, then F-off and don't send me anymore e-mails."

[marsupial]

I have a former acquaintance who includes me in periodic e-mail updates (new car photos, new job, baby, etc.). I am not sure how I rate in this exclusive club since it was only a brief, casual acquaintance (don't even go there, sickos). At this point I would like to stop getting the e-mails, but it is kind of awkward to say "Hey, I am just not that interested in your life - please remove me from your list." I can't think of a diplomatic way to resolve this. I suppose I could just add her to my junk mail filter.

Haven't people heard of Facebook? Weird.

I had a friend who used to send a weekly email out to literally everyone she knew that gave day-by-day details of their week. It was ridiculous. I am pretty sure that even her parents didn't care.

She now sends out a link each month to a slideshow of pictures from the previous month. I actually like this because she is a good friend and it's fun to see the pictures of her family.

[cowboy]

Is there any reason you'd ever want to hear from this old flame person? ...

No, because his wife is much hotter life and hers have taken different paths.

[Green Lantern]

When you figure out the answer Lebowski, I would love to hear it.

I've got several people from our ward that circulate political emails on a daily basis. They obviously think I lean toward their party line, as these are pretty extreme. Some of them are downright cruel and hate-filled. I usually read them prior to deleting them, just so I can get a feel for what the current news is.

I would love to tell them to buzz off and keep their crap to themselves. Alas, I am not really inclinced to do that for several reasons. So I just continue to mock their stupidity and hastily judge them for their un-Christlike attitudes.

I'm on a bunch of these lists as well. I find that quickly developing a reputation as the guy who hits "reply all" with a big rebuttal to every single political email forward I get gets me removed from the lists pretty quickly.