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Also fairly confident that many unsubscribe links have little effect. I often wonder if I'm losing my mind thinking "I swear I unsubscribed from this last week

• rectang 9y ago
  Legit entities are generally very concerned about spam scores and deliverability, so will faithfully unsub you if you can fight your way through to the unsub interface. That won't get rid of everything, but it helps.
  • nugi 9y ago
    But 'unsubbing' from sketch spam will just mark your email address as known good for more spam. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
    • rectang 9y ago
      Unsubbing from, say, the people you've done business with but don't want to hear from any more, is worth doing. It's not all darkness, there are shades of grey.
• beckler 9y ago
  I get pissed off whenever I unsub from an email and get a message saying it may take two weeks for them to honor my request. Like what the hell is going on that it takes two weeks to flip a flag, even across multiple databases? Because they sure as hell won't delete your email address.
  • _nalply 9y ago
    Then just mark the email as spam. This will sooner or later bite them.