Here’s a Quick Way to Stop Chain Letters

You’ve never heard of “white spam”? Of course not, I just made it up.

Also called “friend spam”, white spam is legitimate email that comes from annoying sources: a friend or relative (or both) who sends his daily home-made blog, details of adventures with his dog or multiple weekly chain letters. In other words, it can be anything you don’t really want to receive and haven’t subscribed to. It can be especially annoying if you have a Blackberry with a poor data plan (e.g. 4 Mb), and this stuff uses up all your space. If your provider is flexible, you could enable rules to move the messages to another folder as they arrive, before they hit your Blackberry. If this can’t be arranged, tell the sender about Twitter or some other cool new site and blacklist their email!

Think about it: it’s worse than normal spam. It won’t be caught as spam by your provider and you can’t tell them to leave your mailbox alone. You could try sending a simple reply with “Unsubscribe” in the subject, it says everything without being mean. That is, of course, unless your annoying sender is your boss.