Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 15, 2025

“Actually, we’re owned by a Nigerian prince who thinks that you can help him with a problem.”

They pass the click-to-cancel rule yet?

Yes, indeed, I am still getting emails from The Shock Warehouse, despite having NOT bought anything from them in almost 10 years.LinkedIn is another site which WILL bombard your email address with all kinds of “wondrous news”.Thankfully, and at least for the time being, Disqus is now sending the notifications on my comments to my seldom used Gmail account.HELPFUL HINT, always transpose a couple of digits of your phone number, or mis-spell your email, when filling out these check in requirements.

I get lots of those emails very day, I try not to give my email out if I can help it! And let’s not mention the Spam!

I desire to be rich. I only ask for a penny for every promo email.

I use an email forwarding service that allows me to create any number of aliases for my own email… and if any of these aliases “go rogue” and start being used to send spam, I simply disable forwarding for that alias. It works VERY well: I get about 1 spam every two or three weeks or so.

The 13th try must be the charm.

If you can’t unsubscribe, block.

Ordered something from Flowers.com 11 years still getting emails without one more single order, and several failec opt out attempts.

Blow his mind Pig, tell him you don’t have an email address.

I wonder if Pastis reads in these Go Comics comments areas. Hey, HEY PASTIS… often the last panel of your comics is not necessary and is a lame distraction. Re-submit this one without the last panel. Thanks in advance.

If you unsubscribe they know the address is real and will sell it, and bombard you with even more stuff

I once sent a token memorial to a deceased relative’s favorite charity. Now I am on their forever snail mail list.

Into the trash bin with all those messages!

Hotel Clerk: Ugh! What is wrong with these people? It’s like everybody is suspicious and has trust issues these days!

And trace it for personal and financial information and sell it on The Dark Web.

Honesty is the wisest policy.

Easy. Create a free email (gmail, yahoo, etc) and give that out to folks who want it. Keep your main one for just friends and family.

I have several throwaway email addresses from free sites like Yahoo and Outlook.com, which are normally NOT monitored and which I use for ‘registration’ nonsense. I ‘register,’ keep an eye on that address long enough to get the email they send ‘for registration purposes’ and acknowledge that email, then ignore the address for a while. Every now and again, I nuke the spam. Yahoo keeps nagging me to try to get a cell phone number to ‘enhance’ ‘security’ and to allow ‘recovery’ of the address if there’s a problem; I ignore them. If there’s a ‘problem,’ as the address was a throwaway, I nuke the address and generate a new one.

Must be a Hilton.

Getting them to admit it in the first place can be tough.

Use filters and have them all sent to your promotions folder. You’ll never see them.

Without promotional junk I would have no e-mails, so they keep me grounded – in irritation…

Simply the price we pay for convenience. Did folks think there wouldn’t be a cost?

Give a fake one

SHUT UP!

Which is why I always give my old (I mean really old – from before anyone knew any better!) AOL address.

True though it may be, “they” seldom admit it.

Don’t forget selling your email to anyone who’ll pay for known good ones.

Ain’t it the truth. And retailers are the worst now. They don’t NEED it, they WANT it!

Yes. Yes it is.

I don’t have any problem unsubscribing anymore with Gmail. It wasn’t possible with Yahoo mail

I have a junk email address for just such occasions

Let it go already.

This is the heart of the so-called tiktok ban: it’s not that China can steal our personal information and sell it to rogue states, it’s that ANY corporation can just sell whatever information they have on you to rogue states. And the only reason we’re banning tiktok is because of racism and xenophobia.

I used to have a separate email address for situations where I really needed to give an email but knew I’d end up on a spam list. Then I got rid of that and just bit the bullet and used my personal email. For awhile I was getting well over 100 spam messages a day. Eventually I got more persistent in unsubscribing, and was surprised to find that it’s not that hard to stay ahead of the curve.

Don’t feed the phobos. It’s only a Greek trying to get into your mind.

Like ‘junk mail’ is that even as effective as they think?

When stores ask for my cell phone number or email address, I don’t give it to them. It’s like someone knocking on my door. Unless I’ve invited you over (or are the police for some reason) I don’t bother getting up. I have a doorbell camera so know if it’s a stranger.

Really wish there was a block function here.

I have a few email addresses, 1 I use for random contact info for when some business demands one. Is interesting to see how many junk ads spring up after some places that promise to not share my info get it. Then I abandon it and go on to a new address.

This is why you get disposable email addresses.

“No thank you”or.. “nothanks@yahoo dot com” (apologies if this is a real email, but I send all spam to it. )

When they ask for my email I say “You don’t need it.” Most of the time…

The other reason is that they share your e-mail address with their “associates” – then they make even more money off of you.

Sure, all this “I” this and “I” that and “My” and “MEEE”Get funny again, Pastis! This “social” scheiss is BOOOORRRRIIIINNNNGGG!!!!

I managed a hotel, company policy was no email, no room and no exceptions.

Amen. BTW, politicians are even worse.

This is why I made two email accounts — one for me and one for businesses that ask for my email account.

I log into the fake one every few days (or weeks) just to laugh at everybody who sends things to it. It’s fun! I especially like seeing all the emails that ended up in the spam filter. SOMEbody — one of those real businesses — gave my fake email address to the spammers, and now the free mail site is working hard to protect my fake account from other fake accounts.

Holy sh*t, the sh*tstorm thread was deleted. Most of the time that hapenes when the original poster deletes their post. I wonder if that’s what happened here?

Like trying to get rid of LinkedIn or FB

Lol I just talked about this