Used to have spam in a can. Now it’s in a folder.
No, Ted that was me. Ive reported your emails as spam twice.
Team Trump went overboard and still does long after the election ended.
This is only marginally related to the subject of the orginal post, but I saw the words “GOP” and “spam” and wanted to ask for help from fellow freepers.
In the Georgia Senate runoff following the 2020 elections, I made modest donations to both GOP candidates through the candidates’ official website. They asked for information including name and address which is required by federal law, and I was foolish enough to also enter my mobile phone number in the space provided on their online form.
The thanks I have gotten for my donation is the following:
Since January 2021, I have received multiple texts to my phone per day asking for donations for various Republican causes - sometimes as many as 4 or 5 per day. Texts are one way that family/friends/colleagues can get in touch with me immediately, and it interrupts my work day to get repeated phone alerts for spam soliciting political donations. I try to block every number that sends me this spam, but they just rotate to other numbers.
Has anyone else here at FR experienced this and is there anything they’ve been able to do about it? It just seems highly unprofessional to abuse donors in this way, but then this is the Republican Party, so maybe unprofessional is redundant.
When contacted with fundraising solicitations from Republican entities, I’m now telling them that I’m making no further donations to any Republican organization or candidate until the spam texts stop. However, at this stage, I fear my mobile phone number has been distributed so widely among Republican fundraising organizations that it is probably impossible to ever get my number off of all the lists.
Though I despise the political bias of Google, but given the way GOP Senators contact information for fundraising, Spam folders are the correct location for those solicitations.
Any advice?
I treat ALL unsolicited political or commercial emails as SPAM.
If I don’t already have a relationship with you, don’t waste my time sending me stuff.
I send all GOP email to “spam”, if having a gmail account would save me the trouble, I would do it for sure.
Not just politics. My MSN accounts move ALL things gun related to the junk mail folder. Every day I check it, mark them as “not junk”, open them so the system knows I’m interested. The next day they end up there again. Every last one of them. This has been going on for at least two years.
What kind of dumbarse still uses gmail or anything else associated with google?
A theory: our political leaders encourage us to write and email our thoughts to them. It isn’t that they are interested in our position (most are not) but harvesting contact data (mail, email, phone) is hugely profitable. That data is shared with pollsters, donor solicitation organizations, and other such entities. If you ask that your contact data be deleted, it usually is. However before that deletion, your info is sold to marketing firms all over the country. Your email is the golden part of that info. Snail mail is the least effective as unsolicited mail is usually trashed before reading. Phone numbers are only slightly more effective as the ‘Do Not Call’ list supposedly hinders that type of communication. Of course if you believe being on the ‘Do Not Call’ list stops any solicitor, you must also believe in unicorns. No, email info is the most effective because of our immersion in the online experience. Changing your email address is a major PITA so most folks will not do it.
I have been refused service several times because I would not provide my email address to a business. That is a small example of how important it is to some folks. If I must provide an email I usually use ‘mmouse@disney.org‘. It is always accepted.
Anyway, I only communicate with my Congress-critters via snail-mail.
That’s where they belong.
Google, run by money-mad leftists, could not resist the temptation to add a little code to its algorithms to favor some businesses more than others, to favor some parties more than others, to promote some thoughts more than others, to hide some truths, to do the bidding of some regimes and not others.
And so google has become a full-time promoter of leftist thought.
Happens all the time— Robert Malone gets put in promotions, no matter how many times I click on this not a promotion. There has to be a decent alternative to google.. and duck duck go is not it. I remember the old search engines, and they were already pretty good..
Truth Social needs to create a search engine.
Why would the GOP be using Google mail? How stupid could you be? Google reads everyone of them too.
Or are we talking about the emails they are sending to people who have Gmail? The article does not seem clear on that.
They do the same with emails from GOA Gun Owners of America. I pull them outta spam and whitelist them every time, but they still keep going there.
I send all Lyn’ Ted emails and print mail spam to the trash immediately.
You would think this would be interfering with the mail and make it a federal crime.
GOP emails ARE spam.
Make them stop!