Annoyed by BuyDig -- big Boo!

2013-07-18 Thread Igor Roshchin 


Big Boo to BuyDig for re-subscribing me to their junk-mail despite my
explicit preferences set long time ago.

I've been using BuyDig as one of the sources of photo equipment since
2005, when (IIRC) I bought my *istDS from them.

As some PDMLers may remember, I've recommended them a few times here on
the list as a mostly reasonable retailer (albeit not without occasional
idiosyncrasies).

In late June they started sending me their SPAM (aka UCE - Unsolicited
Commercial E-mails), despite my strict preferences for not receiving any
promotional and other junk.
It turned out my preferences were reset to receive all junk.
This has happenned for the 2nd time (the first time it happened at the
end of 2008, and I made sure I unsubscribed in 2009).

I know that some PDMLers don't mind if they have to delete a few extra
spam messages. I do mind it: with the amount of different companies
with which I shop for my work and for personal purchases, if I were
receiving their "subscriptions", all I'd be doing is cleaning my
mailbox. Besides, when there is too much extraneous mail, the important
messages tend to get lost among the junk occasionally.

At work, I stopped purchasing supplies from a couple of companies who were
notorious about spamming their customers.

Once more, - big BOO to BuyDig for wasting my time and re-subscribing me
to their junk mail.

Igor



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Re: Annoyed by BuyDig -- big Boo!

2013-07-18 Thread Zos Xavius 
B&H and KEH. I only buy from them. I will get cheap batteries from
amazon though

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Igor Roshchin  wrote:
>
>
> Big Boo to BuyDig for re-subscribing me to their junk-mail despite my
> explicit preferences set long time ago.
>
> I've been using BuyDig as one of the sources of photo equipment since
> 2005, when (IIRC) I bought my *istDS from them.
>
> As some PDMLers may remember, I've recommended them a few times here on
> the list as a mostly reasonable retailer (albeit not without occasional
> idiosyncrasies).
>
> In late June they started sending me their SPAM (aka UCE - Unsolicited
> Commercial E-mails), despite my strict preferences for not receiving any
> promotional and other junk.
> It turned out my preferences were reset to receive all junk.
> This has happenned for the 2nd time (the first time it happened at the
> end of 2008, and I made sure I unsubscribed in 2009).
>
> I know that some PDMLers don't mind if they have to delete a few extra
> spam messages. I do mind it: with the amount of different companies
> with which I shop for my work and for personal purchases, if I were
> receiving their "subscriptions", all I'd be doing is cleaning my
> mailbox. Besides, when there is too much extraneous mail, the important
> messages tend to get lost among the junk occasionally.
>
> At work, I stopped purchasing supplies from a couple of companies who were
> notorious about spamming their customers.
>
> Once more, - big BOO to BuyDig for wasting my time and re-subscribing me
> to their junk mail.
>
> Igor
>
>
>
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Re: Annoyed by BuyDig -- big Boo!

2013-07-18 Thread Christine Nielsen 
BOOO!

Never used BuyDig, but several years ago, when we were young and young
people still used email, my husband had the foresight to set up a
"junk" email account for us... We never give our personal email
addresses out when shopping, making a donation, setting up login
accounts, etc..  Even the kids' sports teams or other organizations
get the "junk" address... We check it every  now & then for something
interesting, but for the most part, that's where our spam is.  Which
is good, because I am lax at weeding out email... there are currently
over 5100 unread messages in my inbox, 7340 in the pdml folder, and
over 11,456 in the junk pile...  Is that bad?

:)
-c





On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Igor Roshchin  wrote:
>
>
> Big Boo to BuyDig for re-subscribing me to their junk-mail despite my
> explicit preferences set long time ago.
>
> I've been using BuyDig as one of the sources of photo equipment since
> 2005, when (IIRC) I bought my *istDS from them.
>
> As some PDMLers may remember, I've recommended them a few times here on
> the list as a mostly reasonable retailer (albeit not without occasional
> idiosyncrasies).
>
> In late June they started sending me their SPAM (aka UCE - Unsolicited
> Commercial E-mails), despite my strict preferences for not receiving any
> promotional and other junk.
> It turned out my preferences were reset to receive all junk.
> This has happenned for the 2nd time (the first time it happened at the
> end of 2008, and I made sure I unsubscribed in 2009).
>
> I know that some PDMLers don't mind if they have to delete a few extra
> spam messages. I do mind it: with the amount of different companies
> with which I shop for my work and for personal purchases, if I were
> receiving their "subscriptions", all I'd be doing is cleaning my
> mailbox. Besides, when there is too much extraneous mail, the important
> messages tend to get lost among the junk occasionally.
>
> At work, I stopped purchasing supplies from a couple of companies who were
> notorious about spamming their customers.
>
> Once more, - big BOO to BuyDig for wasting my time and re-subscribing me
> to their junk mail.
>
> Igor
>
>
>
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Re: Annoyed by BuyDig -- big Boo!

2013-07-18 Thread Zos Xavius 
My e-mail has probably well over 30,000 messages in it at the moment.
I feel your pain. :P

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Christine Nielsen  wrote:
> BOOO!
>
> Never used BuyDig, but several years ago, when we were young and young
> people still used email, my husband had the foresight to set up a
> "junk" email account for us... We never give our personal email
> addresses out when shopping, making a donation, setting up login
> accounts, etc..  Even the kids' sports teams or other organizations
> get the "junk" address... We check it every  now & then for something
> interesting, but for the most part, that's where our spam is.  Which
> is good, because I am lax at weeding out email... there are currently
> over 5100 unread messages in my inbox, 7340 in the pdml folder, and
> over 11,456 in the junk pile...  Is that bad?
>
> :)
> -c
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Igor Roshchin  wrote:
>>
>>
>> Big Boo to BuyDig for re-subscribing me to their junk-mail despite my
>> explicit preferences set long time ago.
>>
>> I've been using BuyDig as one of the sources of photo equipment since
>> 2005, when (IIRC) I bought my *istDS from them.
>>
>> As some PDMLers may remember, I've recommended them a few times here on
>> the list as a mostly reasonable retailer (albeit not without occasional
>> idiosyncrasies).
>>
>> In late June they started sending me their SPAM (aka UCE - Unsolicited
>> Commercial E-mails), despite my strict preferences for not receiving any
>> promotional and other junk.
>> It turned out my preferences were reset to receive all junk.
>> This has happenned for the 2nd time (the first time it happened at the
>> end of 2008, and I made sure I unsubscribed in 2009).
>>
>> I know that some PDMLers don't mind if they have to delete a few extra
>> spam messages. I do mind it: with the amount of different companies
>> with which I shop for my work and for personal purchases, if I were
>> receiving their "subscriptions", all I'd be doing is cleaning my
>> mailbox. Besides, when there is too much extraneous mail, the important
>> messages tend to get lost among the junk occasionally.
>>
>> At work, I stopped purchasing supplies from a couple of companies who were
>> notorious about spamming their customers.
>>
>> Once more, - big BOO to BuyDig for wasting my time and re-subscribing me
>> to their junk mail.
>>
>> Igor
>>
>>
>>
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Re: Annoyed by BuyDig -- big Boo!

2013-07-18 Thread Larry Colen 
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 03:58:15PM -0400, Zos Xavius wrote:
> My e-mail has probably well over 30,000 messages in it at the moment.
> I feel your pain. :P

Embrace the power of procmail.


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Re: Annoyed by BuyDig -- big Boo!

2013-07-18 Thread Paul Stenquist 
Not bad. I have 12,800 in my general folder and 1762 in my ldml folder. Only 
276 in my VIP folder. That could just as accurately be called the "real work" 
folder.

Paul
On Jul 18, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Christine Nielsen  wrote:

> BOOO!
> 
> Never used BuyDig, but several years ago, when we were young and young
> people still used email, my husband had the foresight to set up a
> "junk" email account for us... We never give our personal email
> addresses out when shopping, making a donation, setting up login
> accounts, etc..  Even the kids' sports teams or other organizations
> get the "junk" address... We check it every  now & then for something
> interesting, but for the most part, that's where our spam is.  Which
> is good, because I am lax at weeding out email... there are currently
> over 5100 unread messages in my inbox, 7340 in the pdml folder, and
> over 11,456 in the junk pile...  Is that bad?
> 
> :)
> -c
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Igor Roshchin  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Big Boo to BuyDig for re-subscribing me to their junk-mail despite my
>> explicit preferences set long time ago.
>> 
>> I've been using BuyDig as one of the sources of photo equipment since
>> 2005, when (IIRC) I bought my *istDS from them.
>> 
>> As some PDMLers may remember, I've recommended them a few times here on
>> the list as a mostly reasonable retailer (albeit not without occasional
>> idiosyncrasies).
>> 
>> In late June they started sending me their SPAM (aka UCE - Unsolicited
>> Commercial E-mails), despite my strict preferences for not receiving any
>> promotional and other junk.
>> It turned out my preferences were reset to receive all junk.
>> This has happenned for the 2nd time (the first time it happened at the
>> end of 2008, and I made sure I unsubscribed in 2009).
>> 
>> I know that some PDMLers don't mind if they have to delete a few extra
>> spam messages. I do mind it: with the amount of different companies
>> with which I shop for my work and for personal purchases, if I were
>> receiving their "subscriptions", all I'd be doing is cleaning my
>> mailbox. Besides, when there is too much extraneous mail, the important
>> messages tend to get lost among the junk occasionally.
>> 
>> At work, I stopped purchasing supplies from a couple of companies who were
>> notorious about spamming their customers.
>> 
>> Once more, - big BOO to BuyDig for wasting my time and re-subscribing me
>> to their junk mail.
>> 
>> Igor
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Re: Annoyed by BuyDig -- big Boo!

2013-07-19 Thread DagT 
Nice thing about having your own domain. I use a special email address for 
shops like amazon, key and B&H. If the spam gets too annoying I just dump the 
old address and change to a new one in the shops I still want to use.

Also, when you have several emails random spam trying to look like mail from 
something else, like ebay or linkedin, tends to come to the wrong address and 
not the one I use for them :-)

DagT

18. juli 2013 kl. 22:26 skrev Igor Roshchin :

> 
> Once more, - big BOO to BuyDig for wasting my time and re-subscribing me
> to their junk mail.
> 
> Igor
> 

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Re: Annoyed by BuyDig -- big Boo!

2013-07-19 Thread Eric Weir 

On Jul 18, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Christine Nielsen  wrote:

> Never used BuyDig, but several years ago, when we were young and young
> people still used email, my husband had the foresight to set up a
> "junk" email account for us... We never give our personal email
> addresses out when shopping, making a donation, setting up login
> accounts, etc..  Even the kids' sports teams or other organizations
> get the "junk" address... We check it every  now & then for something
> interesting, but for the most part, that's where our spam is….

Cool idea. Wish I'd thought of it. Especially at the beginning.

> I am lax at weeding out email... there are currently
> over 5100 unread messages in my inbox, 7340 in the pdml folder, and
> over 11,456 in the junk pile...  Is that bad?


For me it would be. I'm not that bad, but it drives me nuts to have folders 
full of stuff that now way will I ever have time even to glance at let alone 
read. Culling mail folders is work. I've taken a lesson from my lex-wife. I 
make a realistic assessment: Am I ever gonna do anything with this? If not, it 
goes in the trash---when I get around to it. Seems like i'm always behind.

Regards,
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Re: Annoyed by BuyDig -- big Boo!

2013-07-19 Thread steve harley 

on 2013-07-18 14:16 Larry Colen wrote

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 03:58:15PM -0400, Zos Xavius wrote:

My e-mail has probably well over 30,000 messages in it at the moment.
I feel your pain. :P


my email archive has well over a million messages in it; it's not at all 
painful; i just ignore them unless i need to search, and one of the best 
arguments for OS X Spotlight is how quickly it searches email



Embrace the power of procmail.


or use an email service that supports catch-all email addresses and Sieve 
filtering (Fastmail does this for me)




since i give each vendor an unique email address, i can easily tell which 
signups have led to spam, etc.; i made a BuyDig purchase in December and 
allowed them to send me promotional emails (which i Sieve into my 
easily-ignored "deals" folder); i've just turned off that preference and i'll 
see if i notice them sending anything further




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