Fighting Email

  • Use Gmail.  Spam is now gone.
  • Next, consolidate remaining email.  Go to Meetup/Google Groups/Yahoo Groups, set everything to digest.  Do same for all other email lists.
  • Unsubscribe to all commercial and charitable email lists.  On average I get 10 to 100 emails per year per organization that I’ve give money to.
  • Unsubscribe to all but the most essential alerts.
  • Use RSS instead of email subscriptions where available.
  • If an email has an unsubscribe link, seriously consider using it.
  • If an unsubscribe link fails, mark it as spam.
  • Don’t give out email addresses unless you can imagine an email you’d want to received from that organization.
  • Consider using disposable email addresses.

Posted by matt at 4:16 pm on July 12th, 2008.

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