Opt me out

[jludwig]

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 22:15, Ian MacGregor wrote:
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Joe Roppe writes:
> >> Please opt me out immediately. I've been trying to do just that, but
> >> you ignore my automatic requests.
> >>
> >> Don't you think that 44 messages an hour is a little ridiculous.
> >>
> >> I'll expect you to do this manually, since it didn't work automatically.
> >
> > There's an old saying around here that goes something like this:
> >
> > Unsubscribing from a mailing list that you've previously subscribed to
> > is a basic intelligence test on the Internet.
>
> So can't one go into their options and uncheck the "send me email"
> option? I noticed that I can uncheck a certain option and that would
> cease the sending of the email to me.. kind of like a "vacation" option.
> Worth a look.
>
> Ian M.
It's also easy to write a filter that sends mail to a given folder.

I use Fedora, and when I don't want to sort through the emails then cntl+a, 
del works wonders.