These days, everyone seems to think that adding you to their “newsletter” is a type of gift to you. I don’t mind being invited to receive a newsletter, but I’m finding that many times I give my card out, I get automatically added to a newsletter.

Thank goodness for “unsubscribe”, although if you have an account with Constant Contact (or any other service), you’ll know that the owner can see exactly who unsubscribed. I hate showing my hand like this.

Sometimes, so I don’t “offend” the person, I just continue to receive the newsletter, but delete it immediately. I’ve also been known to just create a SPAM filter looking for specifics related to the newsletter.

NOW WHAT ABOUT THE REALLY RUDE? I not only was added to a persons “newsletter” list, but they don’t use a system that would allow me too “unsubscribe”. Creating a SPAM filter would be too easy (and kind). I think people that are this rude should have to deal with the same annoyance they’ve put on me.

Here’s what I’ve done – and you can watch the video for exactly how I did it. I created a special filter in my email program (I use gmail) that looks for email coming from the persons address. When I get anything from that address, it simply forwards the message right back to them (then deletes it). Wallah! I’ll never have to see an email from Agent Tracy [agenttracy@isnworks.com] again, and as long as she continues to bombard me with her marketing, she’s going to get a sling back. If she gets tired of being annoyed, all she’ll have to do is remove me from her list (which is how I would have liked it in the first place).

Jim Carrillo