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> I think a major issue is that people don't want to even check how to unsubscribe and they see the “mark as spam” button as a “just make this go away” button.
by nkrisc 4y ago
> I think a major issue is that people don't want to even check how to unsubscribe and they see the “mark as spam” button as a “just make this go away” button.
You can thank unscrupulous actors for this. I get so much spam I’m not going to try to figure out what is actually spam or not, nor am I going to risk clicking “unsubscribe” links in emails I assume are malicious spam anyway. If it looks automated and I don’t know what it is or can’t remember why I’m getting it, it’s spam.
Especially marketing emails. I would never knowingly sign up to receive a marketing email so if I do receive yours it’s either spam or you tricked me into signing up for it, so it’s also spam as far as I’m concerned.
- kshacker 4y agoI do this. And what would help (hey google) is if gmail would remember I requested an unsubscribe and then offer to mark as spam 72 after my request to unsubscribe. As of now, I need to remember who all I tried to unsubscribe and when I get their email 3 days, 3 weeks or 3 months later, I don't want to remember my unsubscribe list.
- pimlottc 4y agoI created an “unsubscribed” label for this. I haven’t bothered to automate the rest of the steps you describe but I’m sure it could be done.
- ghaff 4y agoHere's the thing. If companies never collected and used email addresses in exchange for providing free webinars, reports, developer seminars, books, reports, etc. they'd do far less of those things because digital marketing would be much more just shouting out into the void with often difficult to measure results. And they'd generally be way out-marketed (and out-sold because marketing brings in leads). You may be fine with all that but remember that selling pays for engineering salaries.
- nkrisc 4y agoYou’re right. And it’s lead us to a place where I mark most email I get as spam.
- dijit 4y ago> Especially marketing emails. I would never knowingly sign up to receive a marketing email thats fair, some people do it for the promise of getting some deals, something we actually delivered on often as when we wanted to clear the warehouse we sent discount/clearance emails to the signed up users rather than putting it on the site. We used to also trial “own produced” products at discounted rates for people as a sort of beta test.
- nkrisc 4y agoI’ve no doubt that some people do choose to sign up to receive marketing emails. I don’t, and yet I still do, so I can’t tell what marketing emails are “legitimate” because a website pre-checked a small box I didn’t notice or are simply spam, so it all gets marked spam.