I need a new email filter... Freedom from groups

[susandennis]

I do not like or appreciate being grouped in with everyone else in someone's address book and then being the recipient of some piece of news, humor, political opinion or whatever they think of to share. If I request... If I send you a note saying - please feel free to send me whatever crap you think I might want to see... Then, all bets are off. Send everything.

BUT, if I do not make such a specific request PLEASE confine your emails to those from you alone to me alone. (I will make an exception of emails announcing an address change.) Long time friends do it. Some LJers do it. Some people I've never met but who maybe sent me one note and I responded do it. I don't know why. But I wish they would stop.

And, if I ask, as nicely as I know how, for you to please please please take me off your list of group emails, then understand that is not a request for just the next week or next month, it is for fucking ever!

I just got two 'cute' emails - both start out with - "I hardly ever forward things like this but I thought you'd enjoy it..." I have asked both of these people before to exclude me from their list. I just asked again and got a note back saying "Oh I really hardly ever send you stuff but I really thought you'd like this... really!" Well, really, NO NO NO!

Two things really do puzzle me. One is what in the world did I ever do or say that gives anyone the impression that this kind of thing would not piss me off royally? And why does getting these things piss me off royally?