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Dec 20

The lazy way to unsubscribe from annoying e-mail lists

Lazy enough for you?

(Credit: Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

Look, I’ve got weaknesses, OK?

I have an unbalanced sympathy for the vertically challenged, the dimpled, and the low-voiced.

And then there’s my e-mail inbox. I allow e-mails from a multitude of companies to fester there like septic acne. I don’t know why I let them stay there. It’s like that college friend who says he’d like to stay for a few days and, three months later, he wants to remind you that you’ve run out of his favorite Frosties.

Once in awhile, I’ll whip down the page and click on “unsubscribe” a few hundred times. But then the e-mails come back, as if they’ve been procreating right under my eyes.

Now, though, there is new, free thingummy that makes ridding yourself of unwanted commercial come-ons just a little easier.

It’s called RemoveMe and it comes from a company called Powerinbox.