In a previous article, Unsubscribe me from this hell, I commented on how difficult it often was to find out how to stop receiving email from some companies along with providing an example of an easy to discover and use unsubscribe option. In this sequel I look at Verisign, one of the largest providers of SSL certificates used to secure website traffic etc.

I am fed up receiving useless emails from Verisign. They contain no information and often use scare tactics (falsely, I might add) in order to get you to choose their product over a competitor. I am, however, lazy and it's taken me years to bother to look for an unsubscribe link. I found it in the expected place – tiny text at the bottom of the email buried amongst plenty of irrelevant lines of words.

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When you create a new account on a computer, some software or a website, you will normally be asked to create a password at the same time. On occasion, however, the system will automatically generate a password for you without asking if you would prefer to do this yourself. There are a number of reasons for this and one, for websites at least, can help to reduce spam as automated scripts would have a great deal of difficulty discovering this new password, thus preventing the script logging in and pasting adverts all over your forums, comment fields or messaging other users etc.

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