At the end of every year, I take some time to clean up my email accounts --- get rid of some "throw away" accounts I had created, update my "rules" in Outlook for handling incoming emails, and unsubscribe to emails I don't want.
When unsubscribing -- BE CAREFUL, because some phishing scams exist where the "unsubscribe" is simply a routine to verify your email address as legitimate, then it can be sold to other marketers.
I ALWAYS have a "throw away" account for signing up for accounts, using alias emails.
FOR EXAMPLE, I use directv.myname@mydomain.com to sign into my DirecTV account -- that way, if I get OTHER emails to that address, I can pretty well figure out where they came from. My wife, for example, wanted to buy stuff from SammyDress.com, so I created an alias for that, and glad I did. After the initial purchase, we got SLAMMED with advertising from all kinds of asian and unknown marketers, and simply deleted that alias.
This morning, I had 3754 emails in my inbox --- now I have 13.
When unsubscribing -- BE CAREFUL, because some phishing scams exist where the "unsubscribe" is simply a routine to verify your email address as legitimate, then it can be sold to other marketers.
I ALWAYS have a "throw away" account for signing up for accounts, using alias emails.
FOR EXAMPLE, I use directv.myname@mydomain.com to sign into my DirecTV account -- that way, if I get OTHER emails to that address, I can pretty well figure out where they came from. My wife, for example, wanted to buy stuff from SammyDress.com, so I created an alias for that, and glad I did. After the initial purchase, we got SLAMMED with advertising from all kinds of asian and unknown marketers, and simply deleted that alias.
This morning, I had 3754 emails in my inbox --- now I have 13.
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