Marking stuff as spam

Bookmarked I don’t get why… by Manton Reece.

I don’t get why people subscribe to a service or newsletter and then mark those emails as spam. You asked for the email! I know everyone is forgetful, but marking as spam doesn’t help anyone

This happened more than you’d imagine when I ran a small newsletter over at Run161. It’s a really damaging way of “unsubscribing” from a mailing list that really doesn’t help anyone.

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One response to “Marking stuff as spam”

  1. @lars I agree that the behavior is sad. But I wonder if it is a “lost cause” and that it could be more successful to try to get major email clients to automatically unsubscribe from newsletters (or offer to) when the user marks one as spam.


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