For a couple of years now, I guess, I have been a victim of a group called mob4us — mob4us.com. Ever hear of them? They take you, a journalist, and put you on a thousand media lists. So you get spam, or spammish e-mail, from every group and every publicist in the country.

Thing is, mob4us sends you an e-mail every month — saying, “You want to unsubscribe?” (Even though you never “subscribed” in the first place.) And they tell you how to unsubscribe. They even give you an e-address at which to request “help”!

But none of it works — you cannot get to the entity called mob4us. You cannot unsubscribe. You cannot call off the dogs.

You could block mob4us, of course — but that wouldn’t do much good, because they would continue to feed your address to the world unto eternity.

The best IT heads I know have been unable to crack this problem. Can you? If you have any wisdom, please e-mail it to me. I would be hugely appreciative!

And hey: Did I really call myself a “victim,” above? “Check your gender,” a golf friend of mine used to say. (This was in moments requiring courage.) (I prefer “sex” to “gender,” but never mind.) Should I be checking my party?