Trying to unsubscribe from CMP's spam (e.g EETimes)... is it possible?

I keep getting newsletters from the Reed publications group, and it's apparently impossible to unsubscribe. I sent a number of emails complaining (beyond "unsubscribe") without result.

Today I emailed the CEO of the group, threatening to pull our ads in T&M World if they didn't stop. He answered me, apologized, and said he'd fix it. We'll see.

They also send me a couple of other print mags (with their own newsletters!) that I never requested and can't stop.

I get about as many newsletters as p*rn spam these days.

John

I maintain a filtering arrangement on my website. Each magazine is assigned its own address. Recalcitrant mailers magically cease to have an address.

...Jim Thompson

There's still a lot going on in *our* workplace. Eating, mostly.

John

At least the newsletters don't morph their headers to avoid your filters, generally. They still eat a bit of bandwidth, but that's pretty much free.

I was just looking at the traffice on the USB bus to and from my scanner. There's a lot of stuff going on all the time, even when nothing's getting done. Probably like the next week or two in most workplaces.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Hello Lewin,

How 'bout finding the email address of the editor in chief and sending said message there? If that doesn't do the trick maybe an auto-fwd of all the unwanted email to the chief's address would do it.

Regards, Joerg

That's the HID interface. The device configuration specifics how often the host polls the HID interface. If nothing's changed (if you didn't press a button, perhaps) then the device simply NAKs the host. If the device has something interesting to send, then the device response is a complete HID report.

-a

That's because USB was designed to be CPU-centric, and not a general-purpose bus.

John

Yes, although with "USB on-the-go" it's inching closer to becoming general purpose.

USB still strikes me as somewhat needlessly complex while not delivering much more than Firewire can...

All the Intel stuff, like PCI I2C and Itanic, are needlessly complex.

John

I have found greylisting to do wonders.

Greylisting looks at the IP address of the sender and the recipient address. If the system does not recognize this information, then it will temporarily reject the e-mail. All legitimate e-mail systems will attempt to resend the e-mail at a later time, and the e-mail will go through.

Most applications that send junk e-mail just send junk e-mail messages once and do not attempt to resend them. These junk e-mail applications use the "fire-and-forget" method, which means that if the junk e-mailer was unsuccessful at sending junk e-mail to a particular e-mail address, the application will not try to resend that e-mail message.

Greylisting does not delete legitimate e-mail messages. All legitimate e-mails will be successfully delivered using greylisting. The only potential effect greylisting may have for pair Networks customers is a slight delay in the delivery of legitimate e-mail messages.

Siol

------------------------------------------------ Rather than a heartless beep Or a rude error message, See these simple words: "File not found."

Or Itanic for that matter...

I2C (or TWI if you're trying to avoid an IP battle with Philips) _is_ quite a bit more complex than SPI. But SPI takes a minimum of four signals (MOSI, MISO, SCLK, and one select line per slave), whereas I2C takes just two.

Dallas OneWire is more complex still...

Regards, -=Dave

--- Of course.

If anyone could figure out Zero Wire it would be even more complex.

Oops, unless I've spilled the beans and Zero Wire is an RF protocol...

-- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer

Ahum, I2C is not from Intel, it's Philips. And I2C complex? Have you ever used it? And I wouldn't know where to start comparing it to PCI. ;-)

Yup, you spilled them all and beat me to it. ;-)

But the logic is a bit flawed if you take it to the other extreme: A lot of wires does not make it simple, take a look at PCI. Oops, now I did start to compare them myself. ;-)

Ok, back to regular lurking....

Inter-IC Sound? That's Philips too, AFAIK.

Or is there yet something else?

Regards, -=Dave

message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

If the system does not recognize this information, then

attempt to resend the e-mail at a later time, and the

and do not attempt to resend them. These junk e-mail

e-mailer was unsuccessful at sending junk e-mail to a

message.

will be successfully delivered using greylisting. The

slight delay in the delivery of legitimate e-mail

.... Until the spammers realize this, and start a "Fire twice and forget" algorithm, and now you have twice the volume of spam on the network....

-jg

I think he meant I2S, which AFAICR an intel thing.

Regards Anton Erasmus

There was some sort of Intelligent I/O system that intel did a while ago. I am not sure if it is being used in anything. I have just googled and it is called I2O. The i960 was targeted for this application.

Regards Anton Erasmus

The way I do it is with E-mail forwarding from my website.

EACH magazine/whatever gets its/his/her own personalized E-mail address.

When I unsubscribe, as I did recently from Electronic Products, I give them a week to actually do their unsubscribe thing.

When Electronic Products didn't, I simply removed EPMag@... from my accepted list.

Since only personalized addresses are forwarded, I haven't received any true blanket spams in probably a year.

My unused dummy account name at Cox has collected 2014 spams since November 9, and they claim they protect me from spam ;-)

...Jim Thompson