On Jan 17, 2008 9:59 AM, Brad DerManouelian <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Jan 17, 2008, at 7:39 AM, Brian Wood wrote:<br><br>> Simon Bell wrote:<br>>> Hi,<br>>><br>>> I have 2 mails archived with my email address on, I tried to remove<br>
>> them<br>>> and ask for them to be removed but I'm having no luck.<br>>><br>>> Please could someone let me know how I can remove them or who I<br>>> need to<br>>> mail to do so. I will repost the info after.
<br>>><br>>> They have been there for a while now and I have started getting<br>>> spam...<br>>><br>>> please help<br>><br>> Gee, I started getting spam over 10 years ago, welcome to the club.
<br>><br>> I don't think there is any simple way to remove your email address<br>> from<br>> an archived message, and even if you could, that would not remove it<br>> from any spammer lists you have managed to get on.
<br>><br>> There is a reason that anti-spam applications are so popular. Look<br>> into<br>> the various methods available both on the server side and to work with<br>> your MUA.<br>><br>> Some people use a separate email address for posting to mailing lists,
<br>> but that can defeat the purpose if you want to follow the list.<br>><br>> Spam is a pervasive problem, not easily solved with a request such as<br>> yours. It's a sad fact, but a fact nonetheless.<br>
><br>> beww<br><br></div></div>Your response was much nicer than mine of, "And now you've just added<br>another one."<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>_______________________________________________
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</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>That's why I use Gmail for my main email. They filter out virtually all junk mail automatically. :)<br>