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Beat me to it. Why isn’t every unsolicited pitch without an unsubscribe link immediately blocked/marked as spam?

• BLKNSLVR 2mo ago
  Not to mention the obviously unrelated-to-publishing, dodgy sounding email addresses. Red flag #1 where only a single red flag is needed to discard it. Having said that, less technically minded people, as authors may be, may not even notice that.
  • bombcar 2mo ago
    Many people don’t even know that Outlook can still show the source email address because it shows you the name instead.
• itintheory 2mo ago
  Is the presence of an unsubscribe link a useful signal? I presume that just marks your email address as active in the spammer's database.
  • goobatrooba 2mo ago
    I think so too and have a funny conunndrum: I frequently get emails from some "Relations management" companies that they are including my contacts in a catalogue to sell to clients. I can opt out by clicking a link. So either I click and it may delete me, or it will confirm my address is real. I err on the side of not clicking, but I'm sure many less technically minded colleagues make the click.
• matkoniecz 2mo ago
  I mark as spam also ones with unsubscribe link.