How many others feel the same?

[Attilatheblond]

4. The concept of Act Blue to make it safer and easier to donate was good. In practice, not so much

When our contact info gets handed out or sold to anybody, it sets us all up to be hounded at best, and victimized by scammers in too many instances.

DNC needs to address the problem, find a better solution, or they will find people unwilling to donate and then get deluged with junk mail and texts.

On a practical note: UNSUBSCRIBE helps. I use Thunderbird as my email program as it allows for creation of many filters. Not sure if Outlook does that as I never liked it and won't use. When unwanted emails keep coming, I set up filters that will toss 'em in the trash before I even see them in my inbox. It is helpful against marketing emails and requests for donations from groups I do not wish to engage with.

Edited to add: I also set filters to tag certain email senders, color code some topics, and even "Copy To" for email from people I do want to stay in touch with. I have files for 'political pals', 'friends & family', Medical/Health Insurance/ Medicare, one for Social Security, and some files for specific vendors I do want to hear from. Those folders save stuff I want and allow me to find them.

In my old age, I find filters for emails are very helpful. And filters to toss the crap are REALLY helpful.