28th
Well this makes it a awesome Friday. As I was looking through my Tumblr feed I saw this AWESOME post from Matt Galligan, co-founder of SimpleGeo about Unsubscribe.com.
Thanks Matt, glad you like it!
I live my life by email. It’s my primary form of communication (with SMS pretty closely behind). So between work, junk, notifications, personal and other mail, I tend to get a bunch. Historically, I’ve kept a series of email addresses so that I could keep my most important emails in the right places. This was mostly for my own sanity.
I’ve been a Gmail user for a very long time (back when you had to buy an invite from someone on Ebay because it was such a hot commodity). Ever since I got access, I used that address for every single box that said “Email” next to it. Mailing lists, purchases, logins, everything. As a result, after a few years of having that account, I would get thousands of emails every week that inundated me all the time. It was impossible to keep up with that account. Beyond that, if I got an actual important message to that account, I was mostly screwed. So for that reason, I kept a separate personal email address and made sure my close friends sent mail to that address.
A few months back, I heard of a service called Unsubscribe.com. The gist is basically that you tell it what mailing lists, etc. you want to be unsubscribed from, it then works its magic and poof you’re unsubscribed. Now I’m sure you might be thinking “but most of those messages have ‘Unsubscribe me from this list’ at the bottom of each message”. And sure, I’d tell you that you’d be right. However, between the sheer amount of messages I would get, and the fact that some of them just would not unsubscribe sometimes, I gave up with that tactic. So I signed up for Unsubscribe.com.
Unsubscribe.com sends you daily summaries of how many lists you were successfully removed from
And?
It took me about a month using Unsubscribe.com to really get through the lion’s share of the lists I needed unsubscribed from, but I can happily report that it works. I just forward my unwanted mail to them and they get me off the lists. I can’t tell you how it works, but it’s seriously magic. Hundreds, possibly thousands of lists later, I am in an email utopia. Maybe a handful (meaning around 4-5) unwanted messages get through a day, but that number is getting to be less and less.
Finally, yesterday, through the additional help of a company called MigrationBox I was able to move all of my addresses that weren’t work into one inbox. So thank you, Unsubscribe.com. You have made my email life 1000% better.
