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Not sure if this counts because I didn't actually code anything: but using gmail filters to automate my personal email flow has had a huge effect on my day.
by icodemuch 9y ago
Not sure if this counts because I didn't actually code anything: but using gmail filters to automate my personal email flow has had a huge effect on my day.
- colemannugent 9y agoI'd say it counts. My favorite filter is anything containing "unsubscribe" goes to a "Mailers" folder never to be seen. I don't understand how people can deal with having unread emails in their inbox all the time.
- PKop 9y agoThis is a great heuristic vs tediously defining something more precise. Nice.
- LukeLambert 9y agoAm I the only one who clicks the unsubscribe link? I live by Inbox Zero and I've been giving out my email address for over a decade (500+ sites and services in 1Password), but I very rarely receive marketing emails because I always unsubscribe. In the US, it's a law that businesses must comply with opt-out requests. Do most people feel their inbox is too far gone to manage manually?
- colemannugent 9y agoI ignore them mainly because it's easier. Facebook alone might send me 10 emails a day begging me to come back. If someone was smart, clicking the unsubscribe link would only validate that the address the mailer was sent to was being used. I suspect that several services do this either via the unsubscribe link or a pixel tracker.
- emodendroket 9y agoYeah, but that's now illegal, so only the real reprobates do it.
- kbutler 9y agoTrouble is there are just so many reprobates... (See also robocalls)
- emodendroket 9y agoMost of the unwanted mail I see (at least what makes it past the basic automated filters) is from legitimate companies who think I'd like to hear about product updates every two days rather than Viagra pills or whatever.
- apearson 9y agoI attempt the click the unsubscribe link for everything I get but some sites seem to double down on the emails after the unsubscribe
- throwaway613834 9y ago> but I very rarely receive marketing emails How much of other kinds of spam do you receive? Any chance it's correlated with clicking Unsubscribe on some piece of email?
- glitcher 9y agoUnsubscribe has worked great for me too. I was not familiar with the phrase Inbox Zero before, but that is exactly how I maintain my primary email address I use for almost everything now. I typically only receive a handful of emails each day.
- throwaway613834 9y agoThis has a very dangerous failure mode: legitimate emails, such as people's replies to Google Groups (and similar), which either themselves end with To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to GROUP+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. or which quote other email that ends with the above.
- mrhappyunhappy 9y agoI set up a bunch of these types of filters. Now my inbox is squeaky clean and everything is auto organized.