The false positives this would generate, in my opinion, outweigh any benefit of having such a filter. I'd rather manually unsubscribe from marketing emails, since, as the author says, the "unsubscribe" functionality is so prevalent.
Never get another marketing email again
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Re: Never get another marketing email again
#12A bayesian filter is probably sufficient to do this, and will probably do a better job in terms of false positives.
Re: Never get another marketing email again
#13so if i do this, every list server that i subscribe to will be junked because normally have unsubscribe info in them ...
Re: Never get another marketing email again
#14This way you're going to receive only the real spam (that doesn't give a damn about any CAN-SPAM act) and stop all the legitimate newsletters you could easily unsubscribe from... not to mention false positives that just talk about "unsubscribe" for any reason.
Re: Never get another marketing email again
#15Won't work with black hat email marketers.
Speaking of which: any suggestions on ending the deluge of likely black-hat spam? Shrinking hoses, Russian brides, plenty of other crap which darn near screams "if you hit 'unsubscribe' we'll know we have a live one and send you more!"
Re: Never get another marketing email again
#16I'm OK with some false positives because I think there will be very few in my case. And I can check the Junk folder once in a while to see if there's anything I want to keep. I like it.
Re: Never get another marketing email again
#17Won't work with black hat email marketers.
Speaking of which: any suggestions on ending the deluge of likely black-hat spam? Shrinking hoses, Russian brides, plenty of other crap which darn near screams "if you hit 'unsubscribe' we'll know we have a live one and send you more!"
I wish I knew. (:
Re: Never get another marketing email again
#18I've had this enabled for about 2 months, and its been nothing short of amazing. (picked it up from an HN thread somewhere). Cannot recommend this highly enough.
Yes, there's the occasional false positive, but its surprisingly rare. I pop into my "Unsubscribes" folder every few days to make sure nothing is caught, just like my Spam folder. If there's a false positive, I make a new rule in Outlook.
Seriously, try it. You'll be surprised how nice it is, like a clean apartment.