Patent ID: 7127680

Claim:
A method for a computing platform including a display comprises: displaying a graphical user interface of an e-mail client program on the display, wherein the graphical user inter-face includes an inbox portion and a remove icon; displaying a subject field of a first unsolicited commercial e-mail message within the inbox portion of the graphical user interface of the e-mail client program on the display to an e-mail recipient; receiving a selection of the remove icon via the graphical user interface of the e-mail client program from the e-mail recipient in response to the e-mail recipient reviewing the subject field; and in response to the selection of the remove icon from the e-mail recipient, automatically: creating a remove e-mail message, wherein the remove e-mail message comprises a request to remove an e-mail address of a recipient of the first unsolicited commercial e-mail message from an e-mail distribution list; sending the remove e-mail message; deleting the first unsolicited commercial e-mail message from the inbox portion of the graphical user interface of the e-mail client program; and storing data in a log that indicates that the remove e-mail message was sent from the e-mail client program.