Political Mailings

[lowell holmes]

I'm getting a lot lately.

I don't know about you, but I put mine through the paper shredder.

Both parties.

[Keith Outten]

I started receiving political text messages a couple days ago, can't delete them fast enough.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

I started getting political emails and luckily, I have a filter where I can have anything from an address sent to the email trash can.

[Bill Dufour]

Shred them, then into the compost pile.
Bill D

[Ron Citerone]

Luckily I haven't got them yet on email or text. Probably just a matter of time.

[Ken Combs]

Shred them, then into the compost pile.
Bill D
I don't know, some of the messages seem too toxic for my garden.

[Jim Koepke]

I'm getting a lot lately.

I don't know about you, but I put mine through the paper shredder.

Both parties.

Why bother with the work of shredding?

Mine go into the recycling bin conveniently located close to the door.

jtk

[Doug Garson]

Been receiving funding requests from one of the parties by email for a while. Seems they aren't smart enough to know my .ca email address means I am in Canada and if I understand US election laws correctly they are violating it by asking me for support. I delete the requests.

[Frank Drackman]

I don't know how my cell number found it's way to their database, but they have started texting me.

Not happy about it.

[Jim Koepke]

Been receiving funding requests from one of the parties by email for a while. Seems they aren't smart enough to know my .ca email address means I am in Canada and if I understand US election laws correctly they are violating it by asking me for support. I delete the requests.

You might reply asking if they really want Canadian contributions.

At least it may get you removed from there list.

This also might keep you from getting on more lists as these things tend to have a way of getting spread around.

jtk

[Doug Garson]

You might reply asking if they really want Canadian contributions.

At least it may get you removed from there list.

This also might keep you from getting on more lists as these things tend to have a way of getting spread around.

jtk
You have more faith in them than I do. I suspect replying will only confirm to them that my email address is active and would probably trigger more emails.

[Roger Feeley]

What amazes me is how similar those emails are in content. They start out with some statement that’s supposed to light my hair on fire and the pivot directly to a pitch for money. I have yet to see anything that illuminates.

back in Kansas we had this lady that served in the legislature. She would send out these reports every week like clockwork.
- she listed every bill up for vote and how she voted and why. If her vote seemed contrary, she explained the poison pill.
- she reported on committee meetings
- she listed at least one place each week where she would hold public office hours in a bar or something

she served a couple of terms being re-elected easily then took e few years off to have a couple of kids. But she kept up the emails. Every few months, she would send out some newsy email explaining some local issue.

Then she decided to run for office again. Her entire campaign was an email blast and a single billboard. She won in a walk.

my point is that the emails we all get are empty, valueless appeals for money. What Stephanie Sharpe did was to add value and then she didn’t need the money.

[Jon Grider]

What amazes me is how similar those emails are in content. They start out with some statement that’s supposed to light my hair on fire and the pivot directly to a pitch for money. I have yet to see anything that illuminates.

back in Kansas we had this lady that served in the legislature. She would send out these reports every week like clockwork.
- she listed every bill up for vote and how she voted and why. If her vote seemed contrary, she explained the poison pill.
- she reported on committee meetings
- she listed at least one place each week where she would hold public office hours in a bar or something

she served a couple of terms being re-elected easily then took e few years off to have a couple of kids. But she kept up the emails. Every few months, she would send out some newsy email explaining some local issue.

Then she decided to run for office again. Her entire campaign was an email blast and a single billboard. She won in a walk.

my point is that the emails we all get are empty, valueless appeals for money. What Stephanie Sharpe did was to add value and then she didn’t need the money.

Now that's transparency! and she didn't waste money by using USPS. Oh that more politicians would keep us informed like that of the bills that they are voting on in such a cost effective and easy manner. I feel like Lansing, Mi. is cloaked in secrecy much of the time .

[William Chain]

Every day in the last two weeks, we've averaged 3 mailers per day. Yesterday we had 12 pieces of correspondence. 11 of them were political mailers. The fireplace will light nicely tonight.

[Jim Koepke]

You have more faith in them than I do. I suspect replying will only confirm to them that my email address is active and would probably trigger more emails.

My email used to have a bounce feature. It would send the email back as being a non-valid eddress. For some reason it is no longer featured in the application. My solution is to send an email to an nonexistent account. Then the "undeliverable reply" from the email system is modified to look like it is addressed to the sender. It often gets fed through their auto-mailer and removes my eddress.


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Then she decided to run for office again. Her entire campaign was an email blast and a single billboard. She won in a walk.

my point is that the emails we all get are empty, valueless appeals for money. What Stephanie Sharpe did was to add value and then she didn’t need the money.

My guess isn't so much that she didn't need the money, she didn't have to ask for it.

jtk

[Bill Dufour]

I don't know, some of the messages seem too toxic for my garden.

Maybe so, but manure is good for the garden.

[Jim Koepke]

Maybe so, but manure is good for the garden.

Speaking of manure, there was a recent talk and another scheduled about using Class A Bio-Solids for home landscaping and gardening. It seems the local waste water treatment facility is qualified by state and federal authorities to allow their finished output to be used in gardens.

jtk

[Scott Donley]

Speaking of manure, there was a recent talk and another scheduled about using Class A Bio-Solids for home landscaping and gardening. It seems the local waste water treatment facility is qualified by state and federal authorities to allow their finished output to be used in gardens.

jtkJim, they have been doing that for years here. Look up Tagro.

[Myk Rian]

Why bother with the work of shredding?

Mine go into the recycling bin conveniently located close to the door.

jtk

Ditto that. One corner of a table is designated the recycle bin in box. Anything there goes out when one of us (me) does.

[Brian Tymchak]

I don't know how my cell number found it's way to their database, but they have started texting me.

Not happy about it.

Right there with ya. Started getting political texts about 2 weeks ago. Really frosted about that. That crosses a line with me that automatically gets a no-vote from me.

[Edward Dyas]

Maybe someone should get the environmentalist after them for wasting paper. It's bad enough to go to the box store and buy a box of nails and get a receipt a foot long with games and surveys on it.

[Bruce Page]

Maybe someone should get the environmentalist after them for wasting paper. It's bad enough to go to the box store and buy a box of nails and get a receipt a foot long with games and surveys on it.

LOL, I stopped into Denny's for lunch yesterday. The receipt was at least a foot long.

[Frank Drackman]

I actually text back and tell them that they lost my vote by texting me. A friend that is on the Democratic State Committee told me that pushback from unwanted texts was an agenda item for discussion a few weeks ago.

[Jim Koepke]

It makes me wonder what these people are thinking. Their bombardment approach seems to turn some people off. Are there people who actaully like to get loads of junk mail?

Give your eddress out and you may find your account so full of spam it is next to unusable. One of my old eddresses is now used for online companies that tend to render an abundance of spam. It is amazing that some companies seem to have a sale going on a daily basis. My interest would be sparked more by seeing an ad once a week or month instead of sometimes twice a day.

Here is yesterday's batch of mostly junk email with one that arrives early everyday included from today:

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A constant bombardment trying to convince me to buy something or send money is something that will soon be easily ignored if it doesn't appeal to my daily reading.

jtk

[Bill Dufour]

Zoo Do used to be a thing. It is manure and stable sweeping from a zoo to add to your garden. Tiger poop is rumored to keep the deer away from your garden.
Bill D

[Tom Stenzel]

Tiger poop will certainly keep me away from your garden.

Saturday I had someone on my porch stumping for her sister who is running for city council. My dog barked at her like he was going to bite her. Sometimes when I walk him he does his duty on lawn campaign signs.

Good dog!

No toxic texts from politicians for me but the mailings and emails continue unabated. Especially the emails. Won't someone think of the electrons?

-Tom

[Lee DeRaud]

It is amazing that some companies seem to have a sale going on a daily basis. My interest would be sparked more by seeing an ad once a week or month instead of sometimes twice a day.Meta-off-topic question: is Harbor Freight ever not having a sale?

[Bill Dufour]

Meta-off-topic question: is Harbor Freight ever not having a sale?


Do they ever not have a free gift?

[Kev Williams]

My favorite sale ads:
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I mean, how many sales can a dollar store have?

[Bill Dufour]

My favorite sale ads:
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I mean, how many sales can a dollar store have?


In my MIL's town there was a dollar store, a 99cent store and a 98cent store. When we went to the dollar store we bragged we were going to the high class store and throwing money away.

[Perry Hilbert Jr]

It hasn't been so bad this election. Less controversial on the ballot this odd year. I really hate getting the stupid stuff. "Because I am a mother, I can be a better appeals court judge." Huh? Sorry, I am not seeing the logic in that statement, which probably means you shouldn't be expected to use logic and the law in your opinions, and that means you would be a terrible appeals judge. The real killer was the one a year ago, who claimed being a career former US Military Chaplain trained him better than the incumbent for Congress. Sorry I don't see any logic there either. Tell me what you have done that gives you experience and views that match mine. Being a veteran is nice, Thanks for your service and all. But what does that have to do with making decisions about international economics that affect my jobs and investments., and domestic policies that affect long range goals for my government. The more emotional and knee jerk the platform, the less I respect the candidate.

[Bill Carey]

It makes me wonder what these people are thinking. Their bombardment approach seems to turn some people off. Are there people who actaully like to get loads of junk mail?

Give your eddress out and you may find your account so full of spam it is next to unusable. One of my old eddresses is now used for online companies that tend to render an abundance of spam. It is amazing that some companies seem to have a sale going on a daily basis. My interest would be sparked more by seeing an ad once a week or month instead of sometimes twice a day.

Here is yesterday's batch of mostly junk email with one that arrives early everyday included from today:

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A constant bombardment trying to convince me to buy something or send money is something that will soon be easily ignored if it doesn't appeal to my daily reading.

jtk


It's a PITA but each one of those emails should have an unsubscribe link at the bottom in very small print. I find it's worth my time to find the link and unsubscribe whenever I get something new and useless.

[Jim Koepke]

It's a PITA but each one of those emails should have an unsubscribe link at the bottom in very small print. I find it's worth my time to find the link and unsubscribe whenever I get something new and useless.

Maybe that should be given a try. It used to be most of the unsubscribe links may have gotten you off of one list but proved that the eddress was valid. This ended up getting one on even more spam mail lists.

jtk

[Jim Koepke]

It's a PITA but each one of those emails should have an unsubscribe link at the bottom in very small print. I find it's worth my time to find the link and unsubscribe whenever I get something new and useless.


While going through a few, mostly from political groups, this popped up in the unsubscribe process:

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A quick read of this might have one thinking clicking "SUBMIT" will get them out when it actually gets them back in.

This must give people a warm fuzzy feeling when the spam they didn't want just won't flush.

jtk

[Lee DeRaud]

It used to be most of the unsubscribe links may have gotten you off of one list but proved that the address was valid.Valid in what sense? If I send email to a bogus address, I get notified by my ISP's mailer daemon that the message is undeliverable. I'm having a lot of trouble believing that the spammers use an email system that doesn't do the same.

[Doug Garson]

I think thousands of emails go to email addresses that may still be"valid" but that no one actually reads, I have one account I rarely use ( if you died today how long would it take for someone to cancel all your accounts? ). Responding to the spam email confirms there is someone at your end actually reading the emails. I shared this same concern and resisted using the unsubscribe button for a long time. I finally got fed up with the growing number of emails and tried the unsubscribe button on all the spam emails I got, within a week they stopped so I guess I was wrong and the unsubscribe button does work (at least in my case), YMMV.

[Lee DeRaud]

If you died today how long would it take for someone to cancel all your accounts?Dunno about gmail etc, but I suspect my main address would get shut off about an hour after Spectrum stopped getting their monthly check from me. :)

[Doug Garson]

Dunno about gmail etc, but I suspect my main address would get shut off about an hour after Spectrum stopped getting their monthly check from me. :)
C'mon, do you really believe they are that efficient? Besides if they did that how would they keep sending you the latest "Special Offer?" https://forum.canadianwoodworking.com/core/images/smilies/1rofl.gif

[Tom Stenzel]

Back in the previous century in the days of dialup my wife and I shared an email address. It's still active and the one I use when I expect it to be used for spam. I can delete 50 emails at a time and it still takes 5 minutes a month to empty it.

As far as political mailings go the most memorable one was from my state representative when I lived in Detroit. That nameless rep talked about being on a Great Lakes commission. Unfortunately the lakes were named- Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair.

:eek:

And this was a person that was voting on laws for the State of Michigan. I almost wish I kept that mailing as a souvenir.

-Tom

[Jim Koepke]

[edited]
( if you died today how long would it take for someone to cancel all your accounts? ). Responding to the spam email confirms there is someone at your end actually reading the emails. I shared this same concern and resisted using the unsubscribe button for a long time. I finally got fed up with the growing number of emails and tried the unsubscribe button on all the spam emails I got, within a week they stopped so I guess I was wrong and the unsubscribe button does work (at least in my case), YMMV.

Glad to hear it works. It was tried in my accounts to see what happens.


Dunno about gmail etc, but I suspect my main address would get shut off about an hour after Spectrum stopped getting their monthly check from me. :)

One of my accounts was set up with a telephone company years ago. The phone number associated with it was canceled over a decade ago. The tech support person couldn't help my about 8 years ago because it supposedly doesn't exist. My problem was solved on my own and the eddress is still working. Mostly it is used for business replies and one that can be given out when email is required.


C'mon, do you really believe they are that efficient? Besides if they did that how would they keep sending you the latest "Special Offer?" https://forum.canadianwoodworking.com/core/images/smilies/1rofl.gif

My pet peeve with the ISP mentioned above is they filled up my mailbox with "IMPORTANT MESSAGE" notifications daily. It was always some service they were trying to pitch me into buying. Soon everything they sent was routed to my spam filter and trashed.

Heck, my old prodigy account might still be floating around. Most likely if someone's mailbox starts to overflow the server holding it notifies someone somewhere of a zombie account.

jtk

[Myk Rian]

It's a PITA but each one of those emails should have an unsubscribe link at the bottom in very small print. I find it's worth my time to find the link and unsubscribe whenever I get something new and useless.
You really believe that works? All you're doing is confirming your email address.
I just mark them all, then block the senders. Easy peazy.

[Bill Carey]

You really believe that works? All you're doing is confirming your email address.
I just mark them all, then block the senders. Easy peazy.

Yes, it does work on reputable mail lists like political campaigns, retail stores, and other lists you inadvertently - or deliberately - get subscribed to. Spam emails are of course a different story. They go directly to the bin. About a dozen years ago I bought a domian for the express purpose of having a nearly unlimited number of emails avaiable. When I go fishing on the web, I sometimes create an email specifically for use that day. And then I delete the email from my domain.

For a pretty funny take on spam, watch this from Ted Talks with James Veich (https://www.ted.com/talks/james_veitch_this_is_what_happens_when_you_reply_t o_spam_email?language=en)

[Rollie Meyers]

Every 2 years is political mailer/advert season, they go to the recycle bin here, election is held & they go away thank goodness. It is the extreme amount of time enduring them that is the problem.