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Gmail Tries To Make It Easier To Unsubscribe From Spam Newsletters, But Fails

10 pointsby ExJournalistalmost 16 years ago

3 comments

qeorgealmost 16 years ago
Poorly written article. The author's primary complaint is that it does not attempt to unsubscribe you from the lists of known spammers. He fails to realize that real spammers will see your asking to unsubscribe as a signal that:<p>1) the email address is valid<p>2) they got through your spam filter<p>3) you opened or at least engaged with the email on some level<p>There's a need for services that eliminate noise that's not easily identifiable as malicious. For example, I'm often asked to fix my friends' computers when they begin to run inexplicably slow. In most cases they've run Spybot and Norton, and have found no viri or adware, yet their experience continues to deteriorate. 9 times out of 10 the cause is all the software which is running in the background but is not malicious, e.g. the software for all 3 digital cameras they've owned in the last several years.<p>I think this product has a similar target. I know I get a ton of newsletters from online stores I once purchased from, including big names like Amazon. Its not really spam, but I don't want it.
jrockwayalmost 16 years ago
TechCrunch Tries To Editorialize The Simplest Feature Additions, But Fails
vakselalmost 16 years ago
being discussed here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719475" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719475</a>