I'd never subscribed to it so why am I asked whether I would like to "Unsubscribe". Is it that the spammers got hold of my email from somewhere and "Subscribed" me automatically?
Shouldn't "Report spam" implicitly imply that it's not a subscription?
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003#Unsubscri...
From the primary source: "Give a return email address or another easy Internet-based way to allow people to communicate their choice [to opt-out] to you. You may create a menu to allow a recipient to opt out of certain types of messages, but you must include the option to stop all commercial messages from you. "
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...
The reasoning being that it could be used by spammers to confirm an email address is real/valid after a user attempts to unsubscribe at which point they could sign them up to more spam. So don't expect your own emails to show the button by just adding the List-Unsubscribe header, unless you're using something like Amazon SES.
I run several mail servers, and addresses that have not existed for well over a decade, and always give 5XX responses, still get spam.
As long as spam is profitable, because it pushes all negative externalities off to someone else, it is not worth a spammer's time to cull their lists.
I simply do not see this happening.
I just "report spam" now when that happens, and it totally works. No regrets.
In the short term, spam complaints hurt reputation and reduce deliverability, but if a sender is failing to employ email best practices, can they be surprised if they don't have the best results?
You could literally leave unsubscribe instructions to snail mail your email address to some location, and as long as you stopped emailing them 10 days after getting the mail you're okay.
That all being said, reporting spam instead of unsubscribe could hurt their email rankings in the future. Obviously I'm not talking about VIAGRA6969.NZ, but avoid the spam button if the company is respectable at all.
[1] https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/2033321...
[2] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...
They get around the FTC can-spam rules by saying the emails are "relevant" to you, so they don't include the unsubscribe.
It's nice to have a one-click button for it, but this was already available by configuring a filter. You just need to select all emails from a particular address and then choose to always mark them as spam or send them directly into the trash. From the headline I was thinking that they changed it so that you could keep email from an address from ever being delivered to your account in any form.
Would be interested to hear why it took so long to add this one-click functionality, which is common across clients, to Gmail. There must have been some internal disagreement on its implementation?
Beyond that, after all this contact with venues, vendors, and bridal shows I'm now being bombarded with email spam, text spam, and worst of all phone calls from scam artists. The last one in particular is disturbing and makes it clear that these wedding related companies are selling information like there's no tomorrow. Disgusting.
I think a close second place goes to real estate agents. I'll inquire about something once and I end up with newsletters about seminars and houses I don't care for.
Now that I think about it, I'm not sure I've gotten any spam from porn websites I've signed up for, at least...
Or at least, use a mailinator address.
I think a bounce would be preferable! Why waste someone's time?
I think it should only hell-ban via a special checkmark. By default it should cause a bounce saying that this person is not receiving email from that address. Then neither sender nor recipient have their time wasted going forward.
I mean for the 0.01% of cases where someone would literally create a new address just to continue harrassing you, yeah, you could then hellban their second address.
Now I can just block them. I guess I could have used filters to do that, but this seems more convenient.
This feature will help, but does leave me feeling like no justice has been done.
Any FastMail employees have anything to say about these new features?
We are in pre-beta, but if you leave your email (of course I won't spam) I will keep you up to date and I will ask your opinion :)
I've unsubscribed from their mailing lists more times than I can remember.
