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Never get another marketing email again

11 pointsby kineabout 12 years ago

12 comments

danmaz74about 12 years ago
This way you're going to receive only the real spam (that doesn't give a damn about any CAN-SPAM act) and stop all the legitimate newsletters you could easily unsubscribe from... not to mention false positives that just talk about "unsubscribe" for any reason.
jamestandersonabout 12 years ago
The false positives this would generate, in my opinion, outweigh any benefit of having such a filter. I'd rather manually unsubscribe from marketing emails, since, as the author says, the "unsubscribe" functionality is so prevalent.
MrDOSabout 12 years ago
What, and throw out any legitimate e-mail that contains the word “unsubscribe”? Seems a little heavy-handed to me.
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yannyuabout 12 years ago
Good idea on the face of it, but do Gmail filters let you create exceptions? There are plenty of useful emails that also have "unsubscribe" in the body.
betterunixabout 12 years ago
A bayesian filter is probably sufficient to do this, and will probably do a better job in terms of false positives.
alexhancockabout 12 years ago
This would catch a lot of things I wouldn't want to block. It doesn't seem like a great solution to me.
StacyCabout 12 years ago
I'm OK with some false positives because I think there will be very few in my case. And I can check the Junk folder once in a while to see if there's anything I want to keep. I like it.
qeorgeabout 12 years ago
I've had this enabled for about 2 months, and its been nothing short of amazing. (picked it up from an HN thread somewhere). Cannot recommend this highly enough.<p>Yes, there's the occasional false positive, but its surprisingly rare. I pop into my "Unsubscribes" folder every few days to make sure nothing is caught, just like my Spam folder. If there's a false positive, I make a new rule in Outlook.<p>Seriously, try it. You'll be surprised how nice it is, like a clean apartment.
mvkelabout 12 years ago
Sweet, I'll be sure to change our marketing missives to say "remove subscription"!
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ph33tabout 12 years ago
so if i do this, every list server that i subscribe to will be junked because normally have unsubscribe info in them ...
orangethirtyabout 12 years ago
Won't work with black hat email marketers.
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rrhooverabout 12 years ago
Clever :)