You can't. However, they do get discouraged and stop sending them if you never, never, never open them. Of course, then someone else starts but I seldom get any on the email this newsletter comes to.

Most official marketing newsletters should have an unsubscribe link or else direct you to send a blank email, perhaps with a subject like "UNSUBSCRIBE" to be taken off their lists. Usually they guarantee it will happen within 10 days or even 30 days. The info for this should be somewhere at the bottom of the email. You could also go to the main site for the group sending you the emails to see if you can opt out of their emails. There may be an option in your account settings for the site when you log in. If you can't find a way to opt out there should be a contact/feedback link at the bottom of the site where you can send them an email asking them to stop sending you emails. As an alternate possibility, you can just report messages as spam, as most email accounts have a spam button. With Yahoo you can go to options and then to block addresses to put in email addresses, you can even put in IP addresses I believe, to prevent the receiving of emails from those computers/email addresses. Hotmail has a feature called SafeList that lets you block addresses as well: http://email.about.com/cs/hotmailtips/qt/et031603.htm There are anti-spam organizations that fight to stop spam and can help you avoid getting spammed, such as http://www.spamhaus.org. The site also provides some helpful info about fake "address remove services": quoted from: http://www.spamhaus.org/removelists.html (quotes between the large dotted lines) ==================================================== Have you paid to add your address to a "Global spam remove" service, yet your spam volume only seems to be increasing? Here's why. Spam 'Remove-You' Services are at best a scam and at worst a 'live address' confirmation system for the spammer. Often Spam Unsubscribe services pretend to be "anti-spam" sites and claim to be able to remove your address from spammers' lists, for a fee of course. Some pretend to be affiliated with government consumer protection agencies or antispam organizations. None are, they are all scams designed to separate you from your money. Facts about "Address Remove Services" 1 For-a-fee Address Remove Lists are operated by conmen. Any system that wants money in exchange for 'removing' your address from spammers' lists, is a scam, you should report it to your State Attorney General's office. 2 No legitimate marketing firm will ever operate a Remove List or use a 3rd party Remove List, because no legitimate marketing firm sends Unsolicited Bulk Email in the first place. 3 There are many hundreds of millions of email addresses on the Internet, none of whom want spam. A 'remove list' database that could hold that volume of addresses would take each spammer days to 'wash' their lists against it - and at the end each spammer's list would be practically empty. Can you imagine spammers doing this? Spammers add thousands of traded or harvested addresses to their lists every day and would therefore have to keep washing their lists every day against the "Global Remove List" to ensure previously-removed addresses have not simply been imported back on. Can you imagine spammers doing this? 4 No spammer would ever use a "global" or "unified remove list" because all spammers believe that people who remove themselves from other spammers lists would not have removed themselves from theirs, since all spammers believe the junk they send is different from the junk other spammers send. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What about the Direct Marketing Association's spam opt-out service, eMPS? The (American) Direct Marketing Association ("The DMA") is a pro-spam group, not an anti-spam group, whose mission is to advance the interests of junk email senders. The DMA is an out-of-touch but well-funded association that lobbies against anti-spam laws in the United States. The position of the DMA is that "spam is freedom of commercial speech", and that the rights of their members to send you spam override your rights to not have your private email mailbox filled with unwanted spam at your expense. The DMA therefore advocate Opt-out (spamming) instead of Opt-in (permission-based marketing). The DMA's opt-out E-mail Preference Service (eMPS) is mostly a sham to pretend to U.S. Congress that spammers can self-regulate themselves. It will not get you off any spammers lists so don't waste your time. Spamhaus knows of no U.S. firm using the DMA's eMPS service that isn't automaticallly by definition a firm sending spam, since the sole reason for users to need to opt-out of bulk email advertising they did not opt-in to is because the sender is sending without consent, i.e: any DMA member that is using eMPS is using it because he is sending Unsolicited Bulk Email, i.e: Spam. The sending of UBE is against the terms of service of all Internet Service Providers, against the laws of Europe and Australia, and is grounds for listing the Sender on the Spamhaus Block List (SBL). ==================================================== For spam you just can't stop you can actually track down the spammers. A little-known fact is that email is traceable because it comes with an IP address. There are ways via Yahoo email and perhaps other email systems to display the IP addresses and additional information for all emails. Once you have that info you can then report the addresses to groups like spamhous.com or submit the IP address to sites like these which can tell you roughly where the spammer's location is and possibly what their Internet Service Provider is so you can then report them: http://www.arin.net/ http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation NOTE-Arin.net is a non-profit organization which stands for the American Registry of Internet Numbers and is probably the more reliable of the two.

Most all such newsletters have an "unsubscribe" option. However, this is a double-edged sword, because they'll take you off their lists, but in so doing, they will also distribute your email address to other similar enterprises. You'll note when you unsubscribe, you'll be asked for your email address. Why do you think that happens? They're looking for new addresses to send to their partner companies. You're really better off to just hit the delete key and not even bother to open these emails. Eventually they'll get tired of not having you respond, and they'll cease and desist. However, it may take a long time. Another way to rid yourself of any unwanted emails is to get a good spam blocker if your ISP doesn't provide one, and put these newsletters on their "do not send" list. They will automatically block any unwanted emails from your inbox. As a final desperate measure, you could sign up for a webmail address, such as Yahoo or Hotmail, and use this address for filling out forms or registering for free offers, etc., and this will keep a lot of repetitive spam from your primary email address. Then you can periodically go to the web inbox and delete the whole list of unwanted mail.

By law, all email marketing newsletters must include an unsubscribe notification. Clicking on this link should take you to a page where you can unsubscribe. If that doesn't work, there should (also by law) by a telephone and/or physical address for the company. Call or write to them to have your name removed. If the emails are spam, such as pharmaceutical advertisements, etc. there is no way to be removed from these lists. Make sure you have a good spam filter in place and never open those weird emails!