Thread: I am over it!
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Old Nov 07, 2024, 02:45 AM
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Originally Posted by divine1966 View Post
I’d rather get mail than endless calls, texts and emails about voting or donating to candidates.
Have you invested time in tweaking your settings to have all promotional emails bypass your main Inbox? I use GMAIL and so not know how other webmail providers set it up but am sure they have competitive offerings. I very rarely get a spam email: maybe once a month, and then I categorize it as spam and emails from that sender get blocked, plus the AI (called spam classifier: that algorithm that categorizes incoming email into spam and legit) has learned something from my pointing to it that it missed a spam email.

Calls: have been on a Do Not Call list for years. Plus, Verizon must be doing something to block or at least flag potential spam calls. It is not perfect and sometimes I call back to verify. Usually it is correct but on Monday an advice nurse called me to check on me as I was having a short lasting reaction to Prevnar and her line was miscategorized as potential spam. I called back and later added her number to my contacts which will prevent blocking in the future as having a number in one's contacts means it is legit.

With texts, sometimes they come through but mostly after you send STOP in response they won't persist.

Some years ago I read that the Do Not Call registry has been the most successful consumer program of the Federal Trade Commission (the FTC). I do not know if that has changed, but all of the above methods, taken as a whole, work for me and most annoyrances do come via USPS as Sarah has complained about. I do not know what to do about USPS junk.
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