# Daring Fireball: What to Do With Unwanted Political Spam Texts

<https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/08/28/messages-political-spam>

- Host: [daringfireball.net](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/daringfireball.net/)
- Saved: August 30, 2024 (2024-08-30T22:11:34Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2c2f3d673389/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2c2f3d673389.json

## What Jamie wrote

I share Gruber's disdain for all of these automated text messages. I’m happy to report though that for years I've been doing the simple "STOP" reply to these and in my experience it works very well. I reply STOP to all of them and they don't come back. I also actively unsubscribe from email lists. It feels tedious but it also works. 

A little bit of effort on a regular basis can have a big impact on the amount of junk that comes in via text and email.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT292: Weekly Thing 292 / Signal, Checkboxes, Hope](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/292/), Notable

## Same host

- [Daring Fireball: Google Is Shutting Down Its URL Shortener, Breaking All Links](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c38919ffce4e/) (daringfireball.net, July 20, 2024)
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- [Daring Fireball: The iPhones 16](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fdaa18c20923/) (daringfireball.net, September 19, 2024)
- [Daring Fireball: X Blocks Links to Stolen J.D. Vance Dossier](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/871135dffae0/) (daringfireball.net, September 26, 2024)
- [Daring Fireball: Chinese Government Hackers Compromise 'Back Door for the Good Guys' in U.S. Communication Networks](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d92612d6bbc4/) (daringfireball.net, October 10, 2024)

## Saved the same week

- [A quote from Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fcc613435a89/) (simonwillison.net, August 26, 2024)
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- [Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong | WIRED](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/688c2c201c75/) (wired.com, August 30, 2024)
- [The secret inside One Million Checkboxes | eieio.games](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b51357275a24/) (eieio.games, August 30, 2024)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/08/28/messages-political-spam