The Polite Way...

[mojo1701]

My email account has a feature that allows you to specify anything coming from a certain email address as spam and immiediately deletes it. You might want to check your settings to see if that option is available to you.

Make sure you tell that person this, though, as this might become a "boy who cried wolf" situation.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Send them links to fetish gear and sex toys. Hourly.

We have a winner!

 

[MrFilthyIke]

We have a winner!

Why does your choice not suprise us?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

What ticks me off is chain emails. They tell you if you forward it to x amount of people by a certain time something good will happen and if you don't you'll be cursed or something else. I believe that we all make our own luck, and that it isn't possible for something to be handed to an individual on a silver platter.

I've broken almost every chain email I've gotten, and so far nothing bad has happened to me.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

What ticks me off is chain emails. They tell you if you forward it to x amount of people by a certain time something good will happen and if you don't you'll be cursed or something else. I believe that we all make our own luck, and that it isn't possible for something to be handed to an individual on a silver platter.

I've broken almost every chain email I've gotten, and so far nothing bad has happened to me.

I've done so as well.

Just tell her to stop. If she doesn't listen, then tell her that you're not going to read *any* more of her emails since she's not being a friend by that point and isn't worthy to listen to. Maybe then she'll get the hint.

 

[Tewligan]

Send them links to fetish gear and sex toys. Hourly.

If she doesn't want those links, then feel free to send them to me.

 

[fusangite]

I have a friend that keeps on sending me emails that I don't agree with (they're about politics, but I don't want this thread to go down that path). She knows what I believe, but she just keeps on sending them. I get a new forward, photo, or link to some stupid website every day. It's driving me INSANE.

What is the most polite way to deal with this situation? Have you ever been in a similar situation?

I'm in the same situation right now. So I'm dying to see how this thread turns out.

 

[fusangite]

Friends will do what you ask of them, so ask her to stop.

I don't know about QD's correspondent but my guy has developed a political view that people who don't take what he's saying seriously are indifferent to the perceived impending genocide against the ethnic group of which he is part. That's why he's so exercised about all this stuff.

If she continues to send you the emails then ask her to avoid contacting you, because she most obviously is not a friend.

The problem is that my guy is still a friend, just a friend who's been in imperfect psychological health the past couple of years -- not crazy, just isolated, depressed and drinking heavily.

 

[Ranger REG]

What is the most polite way to deal with this situation? Have you ever been in a similar situation?

Give her a stern warning notice on email. If she ignores it, put her addy on the Ignore or Spam list.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

I emailed her yesterday saying that I didn't appreciate her emails. She knows well my political beliefs (we've debated on a number of occasions) and I don't send her my silly political jokes, propaganda, etc and I would ask that she do me the same courtesy.

I hope that she is understanding... I really have no doubt that she will be... just get worked up because my political views put me in the minority at American University and I'd like to avoid a "you just aren't secure enough in your beliefs" debate at the moment.