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If a single click doesn't unsubscribe, I click Report Spam. Gmail takes care of it from there on.
by arjie 11y ago
If a single click doesn't unsubscribe, I click Report Spam. Gmail takes care of it from there on.
- ikeboy 11y agoBut if it's an otherwise legitimate company, not enough people will do that and so Gmail won't end up flagging it. (I don't think spam flags are personalized, so even to me future emails wouldn't go to spam. I could set up a filter, though.)
- pluma 11y agoDepending on where you and the company are, you can actually sue them. EDIT: To clarify: in Germany you can sue companies for spam and making the opt-out unnecessarily difficult. Of course the damages are so trivial you'll likely overpay but there are enough bored lawyers that these things tend to happen every now and then.
- ikeboy 11y agoIn the US you can't. I looked up the federal law at one point and private individuals had no rights beyond reporting to the FTC. ISPs may have standing if they can show harm. See https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/inbox/can-spam_standing https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/inbox/can-spam_standing and http://www.dwt.com/advisories/9th_Circuit_Deals_Blow_to_Professional_CANSPAM_Complaint_Mills_08_10_2009/ http://www.dwt.com/advisories/9th_Circuit_Deals_Blow_to_Prof...
- bitJericho 11y agoMy state has laws on spam and you can sue.
- ikeboy 11y agoWhich state? One of the links in my comment says that canspam supersedes state laws, although I don't know how far that goes.
- bitJericho 11y agohttp://www.legis.nd.gov/cencode/t51c27.pdf http://www.legis.nd.gov/cencode/t51c27.pdf I see now that the majority of this document could have expired. Not sure where to find these "notes" that the document talks about. It also says federal law would preempt. So yeah... talk to a lawyer I guess!
- ikeboy 11y agoAccording to http://www.spamlaws.com/state/nd.shtml http://www.spamlaws.com/state/nd.shtml it expires when a federal law is passed and comes into law that supersedes it.