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You know what would be neat? When you click the "spam" button in Gmail (or other clients with similar functionality) and there's an "unsubscribe" link in the em
by chadgeidel 15y ago
You know what would be neat? When you click the "spam" button in Gmail (or other clients with similar functionality) and there's an "unsubscribe" link in the email then Gmail could suggest visiting the link with some kind of a notification and buttons labeled "unsubscribe" or "no, this is spam".
I suppose that could be abused however.
- gpjt 15y agoGmail does something like that if emails include a List-Unsubscribe header: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=81126#unsub http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=81126#un...
- Timothee 15y agoActually, Gmail does something close to that. When you click "Report as spam", if it detects it's a mailing list, it offers to (try to) unsubscribe properly: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-easy.html http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-eas... It's a bit strange that they don't give you the option then to unsubscribe without marking as spam (you can do it but with more clicks), but I would think that if you unsubscribe and mark as spam the overall system doesn't take the spam factor at all or as much. In that case, it's probably limited to your own account.
- chadgeidel 15y agoCool, I did not know that! I actually do unsubscribe, but I would imagine that many just hit the "spam" button to "make it go away".