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Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Is it wrong to report email as spam when you previously opted out and they either add a new subscription/newsletter, etc.?

For example, I opt out of all emails from a website. A year later they make a new newsletter and auto subscribe all to it.

I login, hit unsubscribe, then report as spam in my email client.

I figure auto adding me is more/less spamming me. Do y’all agree?

tobogganablaze ,

No. I sometimes even report them as spam just because they opted me in without asking. Report all the spam.

trk ,
@trk@aussie.zone avatar

I report every mailing list email as spam, unless I specifically signed up for it.

So sick of, say, getting my car serviced… and next minute I’m getting email spam about deals on oil and air fresheners or something because deep down in the 14 pages of text they want you to accept while you’re standing at the counter is a pre-ticked box that says “allow us to spam you indefinitely?”. It’s not like I want to sign up for anything, but to get the oil changed on my Hyundai apparently I need an email address so they can send me confirmations of my appointment. Sounds legit… oh wait, actually its just an excuse to spam me about the new Kona.

We did a US trip last year and I was getting DAILY emails from Applebees because I put my email address in to get a copy of my receipt when I paid once. Who the heck wants DAILY spam about dinner ffs?

mozz ,
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I used to do this kind of thing for work. Best practice is, before you sign anyone up for a list, even one they literally just clicked to subscribe to, you send them one email saying hey click this thing if you want our newsletter. Just so there’s never a misunderstanding. If they don’t click, you never send them anything else.

Report away. Fuck ‘em.

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

If they can’t respect a recipient’s consent, they deserve it being a little harder to deliver to people using that mail server.

kolorafa ,

I move unsubscribed emails to different folder, so next time they send me email I don’t feel bad in any way as I can confirm that I did tell them not to send me emails.

I only regret I can’t flag it as spam double time.

bloubz ,

That’s probably illegal in your country (and for good reasons). You should report to the correct organization rather than the email client, which only affects their spam filter

Jourei ,

Definitely counts as spam. I give them a few courtesy clicks on the “unsubscribe”, if I still get the chance in yet another email, I go for the “report as spam” as they clearly don’t give a damn.

Also, screw those who require you to login to update your preferences, they also get a quick treatment as above. Take me to the page where I can adjust the types of email I get if you must, but obey the unsubscribe demand by default.

In the end, “report as spam” is two clicks away making it the easiest route to achieve the same result.

brisk ,

I’ve met multiple sites that won’t load the unsubscribe page without disabling ad blockers.

Those get spam listed the same as login walls.

Tar_alcaran ,

Is it mail you want? No? Then it’s spam

Godort ,

Not at all.

Unsolicited email is spam. It’s as simple as that. Dont feel bad about flagging them as such if they won’t respect your contact preferences.

adarza ,

you opt out of all, they send crap a year later–presumably without conducting other business with them in the meantime, correct? hell yea, that’s spam.

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