It was bad enough when she joined Netflix using his/my e-mail address: but now that she’s quit, Netflix is sending her/me two, three, sometimes four e-mails a day begging her to return.
Apparently you can quit the Mob (or Heath Ledger) easier than you can quit Netflix.
The funny thing is, Netflix provided me with a link with which I can re-instate her membership using her credit card number. I am tempted.
(I’m not sure whether I can use this same backdoor to get her credit card number, but it wouldn’t surprise me)
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At this point, I don’t really think “idiot” is a strong enough word.
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You’ll never know if you don’t try. Besides, I think she’d like to have Netflix again.
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IBIW: Idiot Bill’s Idiot Wife
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According to the FTC, each e-mail “message must include a clear and conspicuous explanation of how the recipient can opt out of getting email from you in the future.” Also, they “must honor a recipient’s opt-out request within 10 business days.”
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can-spam-act-compliance-guide-business
P.S.
“Each separate email in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act is subject to penalties of up to $42,530”.
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Soup Dragon, it’s not necessarily her fault: she might just be using the email address he gave her.
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Mark it spam and get on with your life.
There are so many other things out there that are more deserving of your time.
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Do you not know how to use a spam blocker?
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You could just forward all of the Netflix spams to IBB’s real address.
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Actually, Netflix will spam you even if you DON’T cancel.
Just today, I got a notification that a new season of a show is available. I presume I got this because I watched an episode of the show.
But their algorithm isn’t smart enough to recognize that if I watched one episode of the show, and then didn’t watch any more episodes of the show, it’s probably not a big deal to me that there are more episodes of the show for me to not watch.
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Why expect IB’s wife to be a MacArthur grant winner? The good news is they married each other, thus making two other people happy.
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Huh, I thought I’d ‘invented’ that quote, years ago, ’cause we knew a couple like that. Altho I DID turn it around . . . ‘thus keeping two other people from unhappiness”. I guess it’s the ‘glass half full or half empty’ point of view.
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PS: They’ve been together now over 34 years, so I guess they are soulmates, of a sort.
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So you can go to Netflix, type your email to login, say “forgot password”, reset the password, login successfully, and then change the email to their email?
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Egad. That’s brilliant!
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Are you sure she didn’t marry you? You may be an unsuspecting bigamist.
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No, SBill — but maybe she THINKS she did.
Which could get awkward if I’m ever in Seattle.
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@ Andréa “Huh, I thought I’d ‘invented’ that quote, years ago” – The way I first heard that sort of sentiment was in the opinion of the marriage of Thomas and Jane Carlyle offered by Samuel Butler (author of Erewhon): “It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another, and so make only two people miserable and not four”.
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@ Andréa “Huh, I thought I’d ‘invented’ that quote, years ago” – The way I first heard that sort of sentiment was in the opinion of the marriage of Thomas and Jane Carlyle offered by Samuel Butler (author of Erewhon): “It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another, and so make only two people miserable and not four”.
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Oops, sorry for the duplication… made a hash (or wrongly placed slash, in fact) of the closing tag first time.
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Interesting how some truths are 1) long-lasting; and 2) universal.
Like, how Idiot Bill and IBIW managed to find each other, thus keeping two other people out of misery (AND giving CIDUers some laffs AND CIDUBill a spate of minor annoyance).
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Catlover’s solution seems doable. Have you tried it?
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How is it possible to be married to someone and _not_ know your spouse’s email address? Even if he gave it to her, she should now by now it doesn’t work!
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Why – she probably never emails him – I only email Robert to send him a copy of my calendar for the coming two months (because he can’t keep track of the lack of a myriad things don’t have to do). If not for same I would never know if I have the correct email for him or not.
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Hubby and I email each other all the time . . . but I couldn’t tell you his address ’cause it has a ‘nickname’ [ns], and that’s all I ever type. Same with many others whom I email regularly – I type their nicknames, not email addresses [boss, pat, ike, mb, mau, CIDU, clay, et al].
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