Email unsubscriber

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Unni

I am a new comer to programing. I have seen "TO UNSUBSCRIBE CLICK
HERE" on emails. How is this done. Can anybody tell me? Thanks in
advance.

Gopal
 
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Andrew Murray

The simplest way is a link that opens a new email with "Unsubscribe" in the
subject line and to reply to the person who sent it to you.
Otherwise, it is probably done some way that 'flags' your email address to
unsubscribe, and deletes it from the sender's database (which would be
typically how they collect thousands of addresses).

This would require complicated scripting/programming.

But...there are 'mailing list manager' scripts around (try
www.hotscripts.com) for starters.
 
J

Joe S.

Unni said:
I am a new comer to programing. I have seen "TO UNSUBSCRIBE CLICK
HERE" on emails. How is this done. Can anybody tell me? Thanks in
advance.

Gopal
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Be VERY suspicious of any e-mail that says "To unsubscribe, click here" --
or something similar. In many cases -- possibly in most cases -- this is a
scam that will result in your receiving MORE spam and unwanted e-mail.

Here is how it works:
-- Mass e-mailers -- spammers -- collect e-mail addresses by the thousands.
-- They don't know how many of these are valid addresses, so, they send
e-mail to every address.
-- In the e-mail messages, they include a link that says "To unsubscribe,
click here."
-- If you click on that link, or, if you send an e-mail to them asking that
you be removed from their list, they know that your e-mail address is valid
because you have replied to them.
-- The spammers will then take the valid e-mail addresses and make another
list -- this new list consists of verified e-mail addresses because you
verified that the address is valid by replying to the e-mail.
-- Now your address is known to be valid and you will receive MORE spam
because the spammers are selling your valid e-mail address.

Best thing to do is ignore spam -- keep your spam filter set high, delete
the spam that gets through.

I know it's a lot of trouble to deleted spam and deal with spam filters,
but, that's the way the world is these days with assholes everywhere you
look.
 
M

Mark Fitzpatrick

It's difficult to really saw how it's done as there are several ways to do
it, all depend upon the mechanism used to send the emails. The link needs to
contain some information to take you to a page that can alter the database
that is used to send the emails. The unsubscrbe link will also often contain
information to tell the system who the email was sent to. Essentially
there's no simple answer on how it's done as it is entirely dependent upon
whatever system is being used to create the mass mailing.
 
U

Unni

The simplest way is a link that opens a new email with "Unsubscribe" in the
subject line and to reply to the person who sent it to you.
Otherwise, it is probably done some way that 'flags' your email address to
unsubscribe, and deletes it from the sender's database (which would be
typically how they collect thousands of addresses).

This would require complicated scripting/programming.

But...there are 'mailing list manager' scripts around (trywww.hotscripts.com) for starters.







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Thank you, all.
 
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