Delay Getting Removed From A Subscription

I always wondered, Why does it take some sites "7-10" business days to remove you from their subscription list when requested? And why when it is SPAM, does it still take that long when you have identified it as such to the site? I would think it would take as long as it would for you or I to remove someone from our address book!! What are your thoughts about this?

 

Hi Sarge. They all vary in the time it takes and not much we can do about it.
As far as Spam goes different sites differ in opinions on what is Spam and what is not.
He on CHF we take Spam seriously and deal with it straight away.

 

No question I have the highest regards for CHF. The reason I brought up this question was because I have a small business webpage. Since I partnered with another company, I have been getting SPAM and have requested to have my email addressed removed from these sites. Seems the company I partnered with had their server jacked and they stole the email addresses! There have also been times where I have requested to be removed from websites I did member with and thus the "7-10" day reply to be removed. Just thought it was strange it would take so long to be removed! :/  Thanks for the reply DSTM!!

 

Unfortunately sometimes clicking on an unsubscribe link is the worst thing that you can do as they often go nowhere and all you have actually done is to confirm that the email address is valid.
 
I have found that the best defense is to start an email account that is intended for no other purpose than subscriptions.  This is an account that you will never intend to monitor so you don't care how much spam it gets.  It is just a junk account for subscriptions.
 
The above fails in one aspect.... say that you want to subscribe to a news letter.  The above would not work all that well.  Fortunately email local clients such as Outlook and web-mail such as G-Mail allow 'rules' to be applied to emails.  To say it it sounds really complicated but it is pretty easy to pick out emails with specific attributes such as text in the subject line of a news letter and have it forwarded to an email address that you actually monitor.  Your handle says that you have "Some Computer Experience", I don't know what that means.  If you need help in setting up such a rule I'm sure that explicite instructions could be supplied.
 
Now... you mention a web site and association as a source of spam I can feel your pain.  What an "associate" might do with your email address I cannot help with but the same thought as above with the dummy account might not hurt.
 
As to preventing spam being generated via your own site there ARE specific things that you can do.  I can help with this aspect but have to have a bit more to go on than just "some experience"..  I need to know such things as if you built the site yourself or if it is a template based system supplied by some hosting outfits that allow limited code modification.  If you DO have full control I need to know if you have any knowledge of JavaScript or can, at least, follow explicit instructions as to inserting code into a page.
 
Many would say that it is best to use a form entry for any kind of contact system and I'd agree for what I write.  Unfortunately it is harder to prevent spam code wise in a form than in an email link.

 

 
Not only is Jay right but I would remove the "sometimes" unless this is something that you actually subscribed to on your own.(For example I unsubscribed to alerts about the Yankees once I moved back to the states where I already knew the scores) never never unsubscribe.
 
All you are doing by unsubscribing is acknowledging that you read the email. You will then find yourself on even more databases. They will just send more spam from different addresses.
 
Just to be clear, if you subscribe to alerts from CNN or some reputable source they will remove you and sometimes it takes a day or two. It is this unsolicited junk that  you need to ignore and delete. Otherwise it will increase geometrically.