I'm feeling more aggravated than I would have expected, since I know how Mormon leadership feels justified in violating social boundaries. I haven't attended the Mormon church in about four years. Out of the blue I get this email on my personal email account, announcing the importance of attending stake conference. I emailed back, saying please remove me from your email list. By all normal standards of social courtesy, that should have taken care of it.

Jump ahead six months to now. I get another email, very similar to the first. So, I reiterate my request to be removed from the mailing list and add that I'm not even in this bishop's ward. This time I get an email back that says, "If you will send me your new address, I can then remove you from our mailing list." At first I was going to shoot back a reply, something to the effect...Why in the he!! do you need my personal contact information to remove me from your email list? But, then I realized I didn't even want to engage this clown.

Those bishop's remarks are the kinds of responses that scream cult to me...that moral supremacy he exhibited that makes someone think they are entitled to trample on another's rights and choices, and crash through healthy personal boundaries, even when someone has asked you not to. I realize an email list is a small infringement, but I honestly think if you take that sense of entitlement and push it to its farthest conclusion, you create the breeding ground for all kinds of human rights violations and abuses.

I know exactly what you are describing.

They honestly think the ends justify the means and that other people should somehow respect their treehouse club rules. There are zero boundaries respected in that organization.

I get miffed with corporations that are h3ll bent on intruding into my privacy. No surprise that Mormonism acts like a corporation on steroids.

It's annoying no matter how many years pass.

Don't know what e-mail system you are using, but on something like MS Outlook, you can create a rule that automatically deletes message coming from a specific sender.

Better yet, you could have the rule automatically reply with a specific message and then delete the message.

And if you really want to mess things up, do a little web surfing and any site that requests an email address, just use you favorite bishop's address. If you hit the right ones, the address will get used by lots of other sites and will spread like wild fire.

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> And if you really want to mess things up, do a
> little web surfing and any site that requests an
> email address, just use you favorite bishop's
> address. If you hit the right ones, the address
> will get used by lots of other sites and will
> spread like wild fire.
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But won't that end up with the bishop getting annoyed?!

... Oh!!

The bish needs to find out how it feels to lose control of his own email since that's what he's doing to exmos.

That's what I did when Danny Peterson tried contacting me with his personal garbage objecting to my RFM postings.

I fully understand your annoyance. The Mormons continued to harass during over 25 years of my telling them to leave me alone as I was no longer in their church or interested in their trash. Each time I'd hear from them, there attitude was that this time I'd be delighted to return to their cult. Nope!

It took police intervention and a garden hose to finally make them comply with the local trespass laws.

For sure, just respond that you'll just flag it as spam or a phishing scam next time you get an email from them.

Why so uppity? They know they're better than you. God told 'em.

Tell him "Give me your current address and I'll show up in person to make sure you remove my email from your list"
Mormons love passive-aggressive behavior. They can't handle direct confrontation.

Oooooooo. I like these wonderfully devious turnabout is fair play ideas. (Rubbing hands together as I concoct a plan.) Thanks. I hadn't thought of doing any of that.

Send them a link to a porn site.

Or send a pic of porn.

Keep it up until they remove you.

I would have replied exactly what you just said. "You don't need my new address in order to take me off your e-mail list. Just remove it."