Drowning in emails

[lirazel]

Does anyone have any thoughts on choosing which email lists to stay on and which to unsubscribe to?

I've been spamming my senators and rep with emails--basically every time I get an email asking me to send an email to them, I've been doing so. I get great joy out of flooding their inboxes!

The downside of this frequent activity is that I've been added to more and more email lists to the point where I'm now getting at least 20 emails a day asking me to sign a petition, send an email, donate money, or just be informed. It's definitely too much, but I'm not feeling like I have a good idea of how to decide which ones are worth staying on and which I should unsubscribe to.

I also feel that this habit of sharing mailing lists between all these progressive organization is not a great strategy--my fear is that people will become so overwhelmed by the deluge of emails that they'll just start unsubscribing to all of them or deleting them immediately.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this topic? Commiseration would also be acceptable!

Comments

[redbird]

My approach is a combination of skipping the petition or "click here to send a letter" in favor of going to my reps' websites or grabbing the phone, and clicking "unsubscribe" a lot.

Phone calls are harder than text for me, and using the contact form on a senator or congressmember's website takes longer than clicking to sign my name to something, but they mean I'm not added to anyone else's list.

I'm using 5calls.org for phone call scripts. The site asks me whether I spoke to someone, left voicemail, or did something else, but those numbers aren't connected to my contact information, only my zip code. Since they don't have my name, phone number, or email address, they can't give it to anyone else.

[lirazel]

Yeah, it's just SO EASY to use provided forms if the email gives them to you!

I looooove 5calls! Truly one of the best resources.