Wednesday, April 15, 2009

~email cleanup!~

About a year or almost two ago I made the official move to Gmail for my primary email account. I was previously using Yahoo and my account was getting spammed to death and I just could not take it any longer. I now check my Yahoo account about once per month just to see if there is a straggler email message in there anywhere. Today I decided to clean up my Yahoo Inbox and here is what accumulated in the past month...

~258 total messages

~22 from Kohl's...Whoa! That's almost 1 per day. Unsubscribe!!!!

~16 from Expedia...depressing since I have NO money to travel ANYWHERE!

~14 from Barnes & Noble - Overkill IMO.

~14 from American Airlines...again, depressing. Unsubscribe!!!

~13 from Eddie Bauer

~8 from Broadway.com - I subscribed to this one back in 2006 when I was free and fortunate enough to travel to NYC 3 times and see 8 shows. Today: Unsubscribe!!

So clearly, that does not total 258, but there were an abundance of other junk messages to which I quickly unsubscribed. I'm VERY interested to see in one month from now just how many of those junk messages still show up. I have very little faith in the whole 'unsubscribe' function.

On the bright side, I discovered that my banking institution had my old phone number and email address so I quickly updated my profile with them. Yay!

7 comments:

Unknown said...

We seem to have the same problem. I have 3 email accounts yahoo, google, and live. I get so much spam on my yahoo account that is hard to keep up. So i think I'll follow your lead and switch everything to my gmail. Thanks for the post.

Unknown said...

How do you like gmail? We use embarq and I absolutely hate it, not to mention that it does weird things like sending out blank email to people by itself which is confusing as hell to the recipients!

k said...

Bill-glad I was helpful!

Gaston-I love GMAIL. It is very easy to use and has a lot of great folder options and best of all, I don't get a truckload of junk mail like I did with Yahoo!!!

Argent said...

I've been using Yahoo for years and get almost no spam (oh-oh, that's torn it! bet I get loads now LOL.) Mine's a .co.uk address though so maybe that's why. I try never to subscribe to stuff 'cos I hate cleaning it all out - except for my Blogger mails of course!

kimmiekat said...

I love my g-mail account and use that only at home. It is great. If you report something as spam...Magic Poof it is gone!

Anonymous said...

I absolutely love Gmail.
I got an email address through them over a year ago and I never get any spam.
Yahoo on the other hand, I get a ton a day!
In the past 2 days, I have 205 emails...no joke!
I should probably just close that account since I never use it anymore.

~**Dawn**~ said...

I go through the same thing with my old Hotmail account. I still keep it, just because--and also for when I need to give my email address for something I don't want to really give it to. ;-) But I only log in maybe twice a month to check it. The amount of spam is jus ridiculous! My Gmail has been slipping & letting some spam through to my inbox the last few days but even with that it's still considerably less than Hotmail!