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.”

Crazy Joe is out of office in 5 days, 10 hours, and 31 minutes

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.