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My general approach is: if I recognize that it is something I signed up for, I usually use the unsubscribe link (either in the email client or the email footer)
by snowwrestler 1y ago
My general approach is: if I recognize that it is something I signed up for, I usually use the unsubscribe link (either in the email client or the email footer). If I get another email from them after about a week, I mark that as spam.
Same idea with text messages. If I know why I’m getting it, I use the “reply STOP” feature.
If I don’t recognize the sender of an email or text, I mark it as spam or junk. Apple Messages has a nice “delete and report as junk” feature for unwanted text messages.
- linsomniac 1y agoAgreed. Gmail has a handy "block and report as spam", but if there's a "unsubscribe" link it will often ask if you are SURE you don't want to just unsubscribe. A nice feature because I've seen all too many times over the decades people report spam on messages from lists I'm quite confident they signed up for.
- venusenvy47 1y agoGmail has at least two options to choose from: "Report as spam" and "Report as phishing". I sometimes can't decide which to use.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoPhishing emails are pretending to be someone else (e.g. PayPal, DHL etc) to get you to put in your account details.
- Molitor5901 1y agoIf only "delete and report as spam" actually worked. For years I've gotten spam text messages and the report as spam doesn't seem to work. Maybe it's different with other carriers.