Not long ago, I received an email advertisement from someone or something named Andr\u00e9 Assous.\u00a0 I had never heard of this brand, so I thought nothing of it and deleted\u00a0 the email.<\/p>\n
But I continue to get advertisements, now quite obviously spam messages from this Andr\u00e9 Assous.\u00a0 The little bit of research I did on this name reveals that there actually is such a person, and there is such a company.\u00a0 Apparently they are a shoe company.<\/p>\n
I have never bought shoes from Andr\u00e9 Assous, and at this point I won’t be buying shoes from them.\u00a0 This is why, short and sweet.<\/p>\n
Since I had never heard of Andr\u00e9 Assous, Andr\u00e9 Assous obviously heard of me by buying my email address.\u00a0 Okay, I know that’s done all the time; it’s part of how the Internet functions.\u00a0 On a whim, I clicked on the “unsubscribe button in the email.\u00a0 Now, I know well enough not to do this, but I was curious to see what would happen.\u00a0 Believe it or not, sometimes this actually does<\/em><\/span> work!\u00a0 But not in this case.\u00a0 The unsubscribe button in the Andr\u00e9 Assous is a dead end.\u00a0 Andr\u00e9 Assous isn’t even polite enough to throw a “404” (page does not exist) error, it’s just a blank, dead page.\u00a0 Thanks, Andr\u00e9.\u00a0 (The U. S. Federal Trade Commission has a mostly unhelpful web page about Unwanted Emails,, Texts and Mail<\/a>, in case you’re interested).\u00a0 More than likely, Andr\u00e9 Assous is making more money by selling email addresses than by selling shoes.<\/p>\n So, quite obviously, I am somehow now forever cursed to receive spam from Andr\u00e9 Assous. And while I can’t stop them from sending them, the wonderful SpamSieve<\/a> software from C-Command<\/a> makes it so I never have to see them.\u00a0 In the end, the good guys win out.<\/p>\n (I have purposely used Andr\u00e9 Assous’s name many times in this post.\u00a0 If he or his company scrape the web looking for references, I hope they read this.\u00a0 And know that I curse you and will never hesitate to give you and your company a bad opinion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not long ago, I received an email advertisement from someone or something named Andr\u00e9 Assous.\u00a0 I had never heard of this brand, so I thought nothing of it and deleted\u00a0 the email. But I continue to get advertisements, now quite … Continue reading