Spam, and the AARP

As a member in good standing of the boomer generation I figured that I should join the AARP again. A number of years ago I became a member and know the organization does provide good information to the senior generation, even though I knew they had been instrumental in generating tons of junk mail.

I am smart enough to not choose any of the options for information via email. If you don't read those things carefully you can be inundated with a huge amount of ' email information', generally called spam! Even though I felt I had been careful with the registration and read things carefully, I found my email starting to see an abundance of emails that were geared toward the purchase of stocks and stock market information. Within a three week period my email account was seeing dozens of these spammy things every day.

This situation was aggravating me so I decided to go back to the AARP site and check their policies on sharing information...and sure enough there was we shall at times share your information bla, bla bla. I sent them an email saying I did not want any of my information to be made available to anyone. To this I added the reason being was to many spammy emails.
I was impressed as this type of promotion literally stopped overnight and my junk email dropped by half.

The really funny thing is, I knew that the AARP had been one of the biggest seller of lists long before the internet. Oh silly me...........