be like hey, steve. you will be like who is this. the fact is they bought that other source would be you have already provided information to a political campaign in the past. they will use that again. ainsley: can you opt out of it if you don't want these messages? >> there you go? how do you not get these very effective for the campaigns. people say it's less annoying than getting a phone call nobody really wants to receive these calls so yes, there is i just posted an article two things you can do. one, if have you iphone or android phone when you get that message tap the i android three little dots. steve: block this caller. >> forward the message to spam. which is 7726. it alerts the carriers that hey, this is somebody spamming and that person is eventually going to end up on blocked list. brian: we backed off email because so much of it we don't need, want, or subscribe to.