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In the last year, I've been put on mailing lists of two musicians:

* Sarina Suno
* Becky Durango

The former swore that she had met me at a party in Tribeca. I had to ask 4 times to be removed.

The latter had no excuses, just a link to my info, so I can update/unsubscribe yourself. Somehow, her system knew that I lived in Pennsylvania (how??). But after deleting myself from her system, I feel confident that I won't hear from her again.

They both entered my email from the PNG image I have on my homepage (I don't think they're using OCR). I know this because I never send email from that address.

If this were your regular Viagra enlargement / get-rich-today / debt-free / lose weight / fake rolex / diploma mill / online casino / silverfernz spam, I wouldn't even think of clicking on such a link. (Also it would have been put on my spam folder)

What about people who added you to their mailing list by mistake, but are too careless to take you off? Are they spammers? What about those who added you legitimately, but still neglect your request to unsubscribe?

Doesn't anyone maintain a wall of shame? Like a BBB for the web. Surely, big retailers like Silverfernz need to be named.
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I've been using my recent free time to unsubscribe from most of the lists I've signed up for over the years (just from CMU: frisbee, capoeira, theatre improv, juggling, ballroom, chicken swing; Pittsburgh: SCA-BMDL, oldtime jams, EMay's newsletter, tango, contact improv). But some of the corporate lists have been quite sticky.

MassageExchange was one. But I think I've succeeded, finally.

Trombi was the other. For a few years, I've been trying to stop receiving email from them. Today, I tried again, and found this at the bottom.

<< Il n'est pas possible de se désabonner de cette newsletter. >>


WTF?? I've never heard anyone say that in English! Even spammers aren't so uppity about it.

Then I found this on a Forum (no link because has browser-spam)
Merci pour cet article, effectivement, je me rends compte que je suis inscrite à beaucoup trop de ces sites... Mais en fait, les deux qui m'intéressent le plus ne sont pas mentionnés dans votre article (j'imagine que ce ne sont pas des Web 2.0?) ce sont les vieux copainsdavant.com et trombi.com
Je n'ai rien de particulier contre eux, mais l'information sur moi est disponible sur les moteurs de recherche, ce que j'aimerais vraiment éviter! Au moins, sur Facebook et autres, on peut s'y opposer assez facilement, et comme ces sites n'ont pas une popularité de folie, ça peut encore aller (même si mes demandes de désinscription sont ignorées tant par l'un que par l'autre site)...


Not only does he share my complaint, but his personal information is publically visible to search engines, and they won't let him hide it.

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