Does anyone else receive relentless emails from these jerkwads promoting their so called training online to carry a concealed weapon. Countless attempts to unsubscribe are ignored. I'm wondering how to make it cease.

I’ve found that the easiest thing is to simply put in a rule that applies to incoming mail that puts unwanted stuff straight in the junk folder. Unsubscribing, replying, or doing anything else that confirms there is a live body reading their emails just confirms that they have a good address which they’ll sell to other spammers. Create a rule that makes their mail disappear silently without you ever seeing it and you are points ahead.

^^^^ And how does one do that? I have AT&T email

What mail client (application program) do you use? Is your AT&T a web based thing like yahoo or gmail, or do run a mail client program on your home computer (like Eudora, Outlook, or Apple’s “mail” application)?

In apple’s mail client, you pull down the ”Mail” pulldown menu at the top near the left side, and select “Preferences”. A window will pop up with option icons along the top. On the left is General and on the right is Rules. Select Rules. Select “Add Rule”. Choose the criteria(s) for inclusion, such as “From“ “contains” “<sender email or some portion of it>” or “Subject” “contains” “<whatever>” or whatever other criteria you like. I like “If any of the following conditions are met:”, but you are free to use “all” if you want to get pickier.
Then you tell it what you want it to do with the message. The trick here is that you usually want to add “Stop evaluating rules” after whatever you select so it doesn’t potentially apply other rules as well. I normally use “Move Message” to mailbox “Junk”, then “stop evaluating rules”, but you could delete it, set the color of the text, set the color of the background, forward it, etc.

I don’t know how to create rules in other mail clients, but expect most all mail clients will have “rules” or “filters” or some other name for the same functionality.

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I’ve found that the easiest thing is to simply put in a rule that applies to incoming mail that puts unwanted stuff straight in the junk folder

excellent. I was able to figure out how to do that. thank you

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Originally posted by nasig:

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I’ve found that the easiest thing is to simply put in a rule that applies to incoming mail that puts unwanted stuff straight in the junk folder

excellent. I was able to figure out how to do that. thank you

You are more than welcome. You may find yourself adding other miscreants to that rule over time.

I finally unsubscribed. They note it may take about 10 days and it did. Finally seems to have gotten me off their list.

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Originally posted by slosig:
I’ve found that the easiest thing is to simply put in a rule that applies to incoming mail that puts unwanted stuff straight in the junk folder. Unsubscribing, replying, or doing anything else that confirms there is a live body reading their emails just confirms that they have a good address which they’ll sell to other spammers. Create a rule that makes their mail disappear silently without you ever seeing it and you are points ahead.

I've lost count of the number of unsolicited emails that I've "unsubscribed" from to no effect. Usually it says "We've received your unsubscribe request. It will take 10 business days to process it." Which is total bullshit to begin with, because all it takes is making an entry in a database (or removing one), which shouldn't take longer than about, oh, 2 seconds or so. But then 10 business days go by, then 30, and the emails just keep coming.

So yeah, don't bother trying to unsubscribe. In 98.3% of cases it won't work and may just make matters worse. Just delete the offending emails or set up a rule to do it for you.

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Originally posted by Expert308:
..."We've received your unsubscribe request. It will take 10 business days to process it."

Kind of like refunds to your credit card?