I have to ask: is anyone else being BESIEGED with email begging

[dobleremolque]

59. It's the nature of the beast, I'm afraid.

I learned to create special filters on keywords in my email client. I'm still deluged with frantic "GIVE!!!!!!!" emails, but the vast majority of them go directly into the trash basket, unopened and unread. A few sneak thru, but my email client lets me drag and drop the escapees to the trash basket, then add that sender to the "This is junk" filter/rule.

Creating a throw-away email address on the free email systems is also a good way to handle this. Always use your throwaway email address if you do decide to contribute.

And avoid clicking on "GIVE!!!!!!" links that are contained in their emails. Sometimes those skirt the ethics if not the law, and will do things like default-check the "make it monthly" box. You'd think that's normal GOP tactics, but I've had it happen, unfortunately, with some (D) begs. My spouse always falls for this so going through her ActBlue account to delete the monthly contributions is a regular email maintenance task.

You just have to live with it. Nothing is going to change it.