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A while ago I seem to remember using my email address to sign up to some game or other - I think it was one of those 'pokie' games on FarceBook - in order to test something (it wasn't working for Mrs Maxxx so I was trying a 'everyone or just me' approach.
since then I get several emails every day from various gambling sites with their wonderful offers (give us $10 and we'll match it! that sort of thing)
The question is; should I use the 'unsubscribe' link in these bastard's emails?
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If it was "it" that would be easy - but I get several messages a day - it seems there are a lot of gambling sites out there!
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They are probably legitimate gambling sites, they don't need to scam you as they will make more out of you if you join, so unsubscribing may work but I would not bet on it.
Check if the sender address changes regularly, getting around the simplistic junk filter.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I would not bet on it
Oh ha-di-ha ha!
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I never use an unsubscribe option unless it's for a site/service that I have specifically filled out a form to subscribe to.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Me either normally but these are getting annoying!@
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Find some recognizible text, subject, domain or anything else that you can put in your filter rule and simply move them all to junk as they come (and don't forget to mark them as read so they don't poke you with bold numbers.
I use it from various "enhancement drugs" spam that bypass my filters.
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Oh, they're already filtered into a spam folder, but it just annoys me that they are there at all
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Next time test out the FB crap with a throw away email from sites like Mailinator[^] et al.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm pretty persistent in reporting unsolicited emails to SpamCop/[^].
I don't know if it makes a difference, but it makes me feel a little bit better that it might, possibly, someday, in a galaxy far, far away, at least give one person something to do on a Friday morning 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I once answered an ad for freelance work from a religious organization which proceeded to spam me with requests for donations. After repeated requests to be taken off their mailing list I wrote a program that sent bulk emails to them.
It fired off a hundred emails with the same message "I have repeatedly asked to be removed from your email list to no avail, so now I demand that you remove me. If I continue to receive unwanted emails from you I will increase my response by orders of one hundred every time I receive an unwanted email."
One salvo of a hundred emails and I never heard from them again. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs Jim<</xml>
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Clicking the unsubscribe link is like letting them know that your email address is valid and you read your mail, ie asking for more spam. I agree with most of the other ideas to just ignore it and use a decent spam filter.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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This is probably most of interest to @newtonsaber, since I know he has problems with his.
My 2012 Nexus 7 had "sluggish moments" with V4.4 of Android, but the upgrade to 5.0.2 really slugged it. Almost unusable at times.
Looks like I have a setup that works though, now.
1) Disable Google Now. (This seems like a common partial fix)
2) Turn off WiFi, plug in to charge, and leave overnight. (This apparently triggers a change to fstrim at midnight. Something to do with the NAND memory but I haven't looked too closely...) In the morning, turn WiFi back on.
2) Disable Developer Options. It was just a thought... But it seems to help.
3) Turn off, properly.
4) Clear the system partition cache instructions[^]
Turn off again, and power up fully.
It won't be fast immediately (it seems to bed itself in?), but after a period of a couple of hours, mine is now at least as fast as it was under V4.3
Let me know if this helps you!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not entirely related but someone told me Currys/PC World are getting rid of their demo 2013 nexuses for £50ish. Don't know whether this means the public will have had their filthy mitts all over them, and you need to do a hard reset to get the demo software off them, but something of a bargain!
I paid £130 for a refurbed one last month. It's good.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: the public will have had their filthy mitts all over them
Worse: the staff... 
They are in my experience the least knowledgeable and most inexperienced technical sales people I have met in retail. 
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Thanks, I will try this out.
There are some interesting instructions here.
One thing I noticed seemed to make things worse was that I previously set mine into "airplane mode" all the time to save battery. The problem seemed to be that when it came back then every process on the tablet would try to contact home at once or something.
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Oh, I know that feeling! 
I don't let my Android phone connect to WiFi often - pretty much only when I want to use it with Chromecast - as it will "pull" emails that I'd rather pick up on my tablet, as they are easier to read.
But...I turned it on last night for the first time in a week and it decided to update 24 apps! I don't have 24 apps installed on the damn thing!
My battery is fine - it lasts all day, and it gets recharged every night - I use it as an alarm clock so it just gets WiFi off (to stop "email chime" all night) and stuck on charge.
Rest of the time, WiFi is on, it's on and working.
How long does yours last?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I don't have 24 apps installed on the damn thing
OriginalGriff wrote: How long does yours last?
Battery power is good, even after 2 years and 3 months of owning this thing. Very happy with that.
Also, I use my as an alarm clock too. Best alarm clock ever. Great chime sound for waking up and you can set it just for week days which is great. Set once and forget.
Very happy with the Asus Nexus and would definitely buy analagous pad again. Too bad Google cut the 7 inch one. I don't want bigger and I definitely don't want a smart phone.
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The 7 is a good size - big enough to read a book on, play a game (Carmageddon, Magic Rampage, Swordigo, and Plague Inc are the current ones), or watch Breaking Bad, but small enough to fit in a coat pocket.
Much bigger and I'd need a case and forever be leaving it behind, much smaller and it wouldn't be comfortable to use for any of that.
I do have a smartphone (Moto G), but that's because my ten-year-old HP6915 won't connect to Vodafone and they are the only carrier that works inside the house!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Looks like a smelly celestial anal orifice explosion
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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BlackHat[^]
...because all hackers are hot, buff, emotionally and physically mature geniuses who can handle themselves in a fight and end up with the hot law enforcement officer / FBI agent / double agent.
I'm sure there's a job description for this somewhere.
/bangs head against desk
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: all hackers are hot, buff, emotionally and physically mature geniuses who can handle themselves in a fight and end up with the hot law enforcement officer / FBI agent / double agent.
Uncanny how you've described my entire life story. Are you stalking me?
Don't be such a doubter.
Oh, I see why you're confused. I'm whitehat though. Blackhat is for weirdos.
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They need a hacker to correct the typo. Apparently he has aprtners.
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