This is a problem I’ve been having ever since I’ve begun to be “famous” – not that I’m a celebrity, but lots of people come and go on my Autisme Infantile website, and mail me on a regular basis.
Once we’ve interracted, some people generally think it’s okay to put me, without my permission, on their newsletter list. When I had one or two e-mails a day, I managed, trying not to hurt anyone’s feelings by requesting they take me off the list.
These days, if I spend one day without Internet, it’s more between one and three hundred e-mails that await me when I log back and check my inbox. As much as I want to be of help, I can’t take this anymore. It’s very tedious to find something worth my attention in the middle of all those unwanted e-mails, ranging from this that could interest me (but I have no time to check further) to things that are really out of my interest area.
Most of those e-mails have no unsuscribe link, either. You have to personally drop a note to whomever sends you those, and try not to hurt their feelings when you ask nicely to be unsuscribed. Some will try to guilt you into staying on the list too (look, my cause is important too, what about the children?).
Because this is getting out of control (don’t even talk to me about people that feel I have to be in copy of any discussion ever e-mailed and those who send me jokes – not funny), I have decided that there is no more Mrs NiceGirl. I will drop two lines to ask to be unsuscribed. I will ask not to be included in mass e-mails. I will be curt, to the point, and also, I will spam you if you send me any newsletter I haven’t suscribed to.
