>This is most annoying when the site wants me to type in my email address to unsubscribe. I've become increasingly suspicious of this practice if my email add

>This is most annoying when the site wants me to type in my email address to unsubscribe. I've become increasingly suspicious of this practice if my email address is in the URL, why don't you autofill that email box for me? if it's not in the URL, why aren't you fetching it from your database using my unique hash in the URL? do you even keep any records of email subscription preferences? am I just signing up for more shitty spam by giving you my email, again? am I just being marked as 'active' i.e. fresh meat, somewhere in the spammiverse? these questions become more poignant and the suspicion more fiery when, low and behold, it turns out you are still subscribed I don't fill them in any more, I just block the sender don't get me started on the "it may take up to 28 days for our systems to register your desertion" bollocks -- I'm not working a contractual notice period, or running a lap of dishonour. it's a bitflip to 'false' in the 'is_pesterable' column, else a respectful deletion. it takes microseconds, not weeks!