How can I get removed from e-mail marketing newsletters?
By law, all email marketing newsletters must include an unsubscribe notification. Clicking on this link should take you to a page where you can unsubscribe. If that doesn’t work, there should (also by law) by a telephone and/or physical address for the company. Call or write to them to have your name removed. If the emails are spam, such as pharmaceutical advertisements, etc. there is no way to be removed from these lists. Make sure you have a good spam filter in place and never open those weird emails!
Most all such newsletters have an “unsubscribe” option. However, this is a double-edged sword, because they’ll take you off their lists, but in so doing, they will also distribute your email address to other similar enterprises. You’ll note when you unsubscribe, you’ll be asked for your email address. Why do you think that happens? They’re looking for new addresses to send to their partner companies. You’re really better off to just hit the delete key and not even bother to open these emails. Eventually they’ll get tired of not having you respond, and they’ll cease and desist. However, it may take a long time. Another way to rid yourself of any unwanted emails is to get a good spam blocker if your ISP doesn’t provide one, and put these newsletters on their “do not send” list. They will automatically block any unwanted emails from your inbox. As a final desperate measure, you could sign up for a webmail address, such as Yahoo or Hotmail, and use this address for filling out forms or reg
Most official marketing newsletters should have an unsubscribe link or else direct you to send a blank email, perhaps with a subject like “UNSUBSCRIBE” to be taken off their lists. Usually they guarantee it will happen within 10 days or even 30 days. The info for this should be somewhere at the bottom of the email. You could also go to the main site for the group sending you the emails to see if you can opt out of their emails. There may be an option in your account settings for the site when you log in. If you can’t find a way to opt out there should be a contact/feedback link at the bottom of the site where you can send them an email asking them to stop sending you emails. As an alternate possibility, you can just report messages as spam, as most email accounts have a spam button. With Yahoo you can go to options and then to block addresses to put in email addresses, you can even put in IP addresses I believe, to prevent the receiving of emails from those computers/email addresses. H
