Is there a "do-not-email" site where you can sign up? Is there any way

[raccoon]

you can get retailers to stop inundating you with emails?

I tried filtering before with my work emails, but it filtered too much.

[Ian David]

1. ...

[NV Whino]

Go to the bottom of each e-mail

There is usually an unsubscribe link. It works about 50% of the time.

Or, change your e-mail. Or get an e-mail that you use only for online ordering.

[southernyankeebelle]

2. I get lots of e-mails from every where. If I don't recognize them I don't open. I just delete it.

[GoCubsGo]

5. I use Mozilla Thunderbird to read my e-mail, which as a good feature.

If you get an e-mail that you think is spam, just hit the "junk" button, and it filters them out. My ISP already does a good job of filtering out the junk, but every once in a while, one slips through.

[GoCubsGo]

3. Are you on their mailing lists?

That's generally how they get your address to send you e-mails. They may also sell them to other retailers. When you subscribe, there is usually a box to check or leave unchecked that gives them permission to pass along your address--or not. About the only way you can stop it is to unsubsribe. Scroll down to the bottom of the e-mail and hit the "unsubsribe" link. I have a separate Yahoo e-mail account for this sort of thing. Any retailer or manufacturer-related e-mails get sent there. If I don't want to read them, I do down the list, check the boxes, and hit "delete".

[raccoon]

4. Some good suggestions here. I'll set up a freebe email where all junk emails can go. nt

[doc03]

6. That doesn't bother me half as much as the ones I get from

my teabagging congressman Bill Johnson.

[madokie]

7. Best advice is I think

to have two separate emails addys so you can use one where its required and another for the personal stuff. Thats what I'm going to do. Go take a look at the trash addy every once in a while to catch the emails from people I know and haven't given my new personal email too yet. Not much that is in an email has to be acted on right now and if there is you don't want anything to do with it anyway. I mean we don't email our friends and say hey man come help me unload this washer or whatever so if you miss an email from someone more that likely it'll be ok when you do go check your other account and find it. Plus after a while you won't have to check the one account where the spam comes except when you have to have a confirmation on some things you do online