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0 pointsEkaros2y ago0 comments

With email spam it has been long proven that best way to act is to treat all actors as malicious. As there is enough malicious actors around.

And it took me a minute to find phishing mail with unsubscribe link. Which entirely proves my original point. Sure those sending phishing mails won't stop the mails I probably ordered somewhere?

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arp2422y ago

> And it took me a minute to find phishing mail with unsubscribe link. Which entirely proves my original point

You weren't talking about phishing before. You're shifting this to something radically different.

EkarosOP2y ago

I originally replied to comment stating:

> Yeah no. Emails which include an unsubscribe link are legit enough to not do that. Actual spammers don't bother to include an unsubscribe link.

I found a phishing email with unsubscribe link. Thus I think we can generalize that emails containing unsubscribe in general are not legit nearly enough of times to trust that. Thus only correct and safe way is to mark them as spam and let the email provider eventually to handle them correctly for everyone.

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