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[pet lover]

......what misery can you cause them?

I can actually narrow it down to ONE specific company because in this instance, I used my father's name and my e-mail address because I was purchasing a gift for him.

I found out today when I accidentally clicked on a spam mail and realized that it was addressed to my father.

What misery can I cause this company for ruining my e-mail address....one I've had for years and hadn't had a lot of spam until right about the time I made that purchase?

Edit: and yes, I realize that address has two s's on the end.....there wasn't room in the subject line.

[mindmetoo]

There was a case where a guy paid for an item with a check. On the back of the check he wrote "my address cannot be used for direct mail campaigns. Cashing this check and adding my address constitutes an agreement to pay me $500,000." Or some such wording. They added his name to their mailing list. He sued. He won.

Once I used flowers.com or something like that to send flowers to my friend going to university. It was the first big exam season of her life and she was stressed out. I thought it would be nice if she got some flowers. Anyway, flowers.com slaps your email on their mega spam list. About 2 months before any holiday they start emailing you daily with reminders how many days it is until St. Swynth's Day and you should really send your local Green Cap Friar a muffin and flower basket to thank him for knowing who St. Swynth was...

I quickly followed their unsubscribe procedure. The emails kept coming. I did it again. And again. No luck.

Finally, I sent them an email like the one above, to every addy I could find on their page and CC'd it to [email protected]. It read something like "This user does not wish to receive further spam email from flowers.com or its associates. Failure to remove this address from your mailing list and sending future spam directly or by a third party will constitute an agreement to pay me $500,000."

The sys admin got back to me the next day via email. He said he found my unsubscribe request in the system but had no idea why I was receiving email. He assured me I would never get another email. I didn't. For about a year. They outsourced the spam to another company. I considered taking the email to a lawyer and suing but I'm lazy...

So yeah. Any time you order something online, if possible, include a note that you don't wish your email added to any kind of list and adding it to such a list constitutes and agreement to pay your some nice tidy sum.

[pet lover]

Great idea. I'll do that in the future.