rockhillmanor wrote:
brobox wrote:
fj12ryder wrote:
It's free and they make the rules, so whatcha gonna do? I see no reason for it, but they obviously see a revenue stream there and that's why they have the service in the first place: to make money. Your inconvenience and disgruntlement are totally secondary to that.
A good friend of mine just unplugged his computer and put his smartphone in a drawer and activated his old flip phone for the same reason. Seems a little strange to me, but it's his choice. He is paranoid that Verizon sold phone records to the NSA, so he doesn't want to play anymore.
Not disgruntled. I'm just real glad that for 8 years and counting my personal email is spam free. So many of my friends have to spend 20 minutes deleting all the garbage off their email before they can even find the ones that are real.
THAT is why I use yahoo for all my internet interaction.
When I bought my Iphone I asked if they sell the phone number? Of course they said no.
I didn't even make it out the door of the ATT office and to my car before I got 6 texts from ADVERTISERS. I am not 16 years old, don't need to mindlessly text. I CALL my friends so I did not choose the package which included unlimited text. SO, I 'pay' for all texts.
Disgruntled no, just want a phone and email that has ONLY my stuff on it NOT unsolicited junk. Yes that I find inconvenient. And it all stems from loss of privacy. We as people should have put a stop to it but we were outnumbered by the trillions of the new computer kids that don't have a clue and clicked away without reading the privacy act first. Albeit I think most of them are so uneducated they would not have understood it anyway! :(
Not paranoid like your friend, but my Iphone is also in a drawer and I dug out my emergency back up burner phone from the RV and using it. I couldn't stop them from tying all my Iphone email info to damnn facebook.
Setting up Filtering and/or rules will eliminate this. In outlook, a simple right click on the email while in your inbox and go down to junk mail, click and tell it to move all email from this sender to the junk mail folder prevents you from ever seeing them again.
