The women of Yahoo

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You know how you’re not supposed to respond to a spam e-mail in any way, because telling them to take you off their mailing list confirms that the address is “live”? In recent weeks I’ve received three requests from fictitious women to add me to my Yahoo contacts list – obviously I’m not going to accept, but I suspect that declining might function to confirm the address for whichever company is behind this mischief. So now, every day, multiple times a day, I get pop-up messages reminding me that Jenell Mittelsteadt, Victoria Wadleigh, and Francesca Galvan want to be my friend. How callous I am to ignore them so resolutely.