Not long ago, I received an email advertisement from someone or something named André Assous.  I had never heard of this brand, so I thought nothing of it and deleted  the email.

But I continue to get advertisements, now quite obviously spam messages from this André Assous.  The little bit of research I did on this name reveals that there actually is such a person, and there is such a company.  Apparently they are a shoe company.

I have never bought shoes from André Assous, and at this point I won’t be buying shoes from them.  This is why, short and sweet.

Since I had never heard of André Assous, André Assous obviously heard of me by buying my email address.  Okay, I know that’s done all the time; it’s part of how the Internet functions.  On a whim, I clicked on the “unsubscribe button in the email.  Now, I know well enough not to do this, but I was curious to see what would happen.  Believe it or not, sometimes this actually does work!  But not in this case.  The unsubscribe button in the André Assous is a dead end.  André Assous isn’t even polite enough to throw a “404” (page does not exist) error, it’s just a blank, dead page.  Thanks, André.  (The U. S. Federal Trade Commission has a mostly unhelpful web page about Unwanted Emails,, Texts and Mail, in case you’re interested).  More than likely, André Assous is making more money by selling email addresses than by selling shoes.

So, quite obviously, I am somehow now forever cursed to receive spam from André Assous. And while I can’t stop them from sending them, the wonderful SpamSieve software from C-Command makes it so I never have to see them.  In the end, the good guys win out.

(I have purposely used André Assous’s name many times in this post.  If he or his company scrape the web looking for references, I hope they read this.  And know that I curse you and will never hesitate to give you and your company a bad opinion).