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Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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post #144

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That's why you have one mail for clueless and one for those that do have a clue. Been doing thish for 25? years :-)

Are you using the same address for those that have a clue since 25 years, or you changed it? (I was probably using my Yahoo! address 25 years ago.)

I was using it until the service blocked Pop3 and Imap a few years ago, then I gave up and moved to gmail and protonmail.

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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post #246

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Is Fastmail less centralized somehow?

Did I claim it was?

Sorry if you see this later, it came out more blunt than I had wanted it to.

I didn't mean to imply fastmail was centralised in the original comment if it came off as that :)

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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All my emails that come from domains I have not whitelisted get thrown in the trash. Works pretty well. Same deal with my phone. Any private or unknown number gets the mail box which I never check and SMS trashed.

So fuck anyone not using gmail/whatever that wants to contact you?

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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post #195
post #101

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I'm on several mailing lists from US companies that use Cloudflare country filters or similar technologies to block non-US traffic to their sites. So since moving out of the US I have no way of unsubscribing and no way of contacting them, so they all get reported as spam. Keep this in mind if you run a list and are ever tempted to mass block traffic from your site.

Interesting! We don’t do any of that, but that’s also something I’ve never thought about. Can’t you email them?

I tried the generic contacts and got no response. Filed an FTC complaint for whatever good that did, then blocked and moved on.

Re: Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing

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post #109

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Wiktionary ‘defines’ spam as ‘unsolicited and unwanted’. Elsewhere, Wikipedia describes spam as ‘unsolicited or unwanted’. And vs. Or. Of course spam’s definition should use ‘and’. When you sign up for a newsletter, and later decide you don’t want it, to call it ‘spam’ is merely metaphorical. [1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spam [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam

Nah. You forgot to quote the key word from those definitions: email. Not "newsletters subscriptions", not "promises to receive interesting emails", not "agreements to get sent x mails per week". Spam is unsolicited and/or unwanted email, period. It does not matter whether you were tricked into subscribing to some newsletter or whether you checked a "receive interesting emails from us" box while paying for something.…

I take exception with the ‘and/or’—-what prevents you from choosing precise language?
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