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Not to stand up for spammers, but this initiative looks like it is designed to work with "the good guys"; organisations that use services like Mailchimp and hav
by mpclark 13y ago
Not to stand up for spammers, but this initiative looks like it is designed to work with "the good guys"; organisations that use services like Mailchimp and have unsubscribe mechanisms that work and so on.
It won't really help with people who just send stuff over and over to a home-made list that is kept in an Excel spreadsheet and never clean the undeliverables or unsubscribes out of it.
And it certainly wont help with the pills and stocks brigade.
- pjscott 13y agoIf enough users press "unsubscribe" to a sender, and that sender doesn't stop sending them emails, this is a high quality signal that the sender needs to be blocked altogether. If GMail's response to this kind of signal is aggressive enough, it also gives an incentive for legitimate-ish senders to offer one-click unsubscribe links, to decrease the number of cases where someone presses 'unsubscribe' but then doesn't jump through some second hoop. So yeah, I'd say this has some advantages for dealing with a wide range of scum.