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Google seems to have broken email forwarding
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Re: Google seems to have broken email forwarding
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http://imgur.com/yqsYyPY of the 64 emails I have from them 50 are spam of this nature.
And if you open any of them, there is a convenient link to unsubscribe from them: http://paste.click/fOAtyL
Are you saying they are opt out? because I think that is what you are saying? Way to miss the point.
Re: Google seems to have broken email forwarding
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No, marco, you're just being "corrected." Iron sharpens iron, duh.
Although I'm not certain what you're implying by "corrected", I hadn't ever heard that phrase about iron before. Thanks, I like it.
You and I had similar difficulty yesterday vis-a-vis arbitrary downvoting. I was referring to a comment made at me regarding how HN comments are for correcting people who are wrong, and accompanying that is downvotes. Except for when "correction" has nothing to do with the downvote, or none is offered.
It doesn't matter. The conversation at HN is toxic. I've bitched enough. I was just reaching out for commiseration.
Re: Google seems to have broken email forwarding
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And that's why I said: " but if you signed up for it, at least put in the same amount of effort to get out of it first. " If you signed up, then you opted in. Don't be lazy and mark things you signed up for as spam. I'm not understanding how people get email from Amazon that aren't customers, and how customers can't turn off everything but confirmations, which I know is possible, because I have.
> how customers can't turn off everything but confirmations I'm a customer, I consider that opt out. You don't? I signed up for amazon, not their bullshit emails. That you consider the situation opt in shows they have you trained well.
Nice, ad hom, and I can't downvote your insulting comment! How about this: are you too lazy to uncheck a few check boxes? Because that's all it takes, and then you'll only get order and shipping confirmations.
Re: Google seems to have broken email forwarding
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
And if you open any of them, there is a convenient link to unsubscribe from them: http://paste.click/fOAtyL
Are you saying they are opt out? because I think that is what you are saying? Way to miss the point.
No I'm saying you opted in, and can now opt back out.
Re: Google seems to have broken email forwarding
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Speaking as a person who frequently buys from Amazon, I've never experienced this. (No, it's not that promotional email from Amazon is going into my spam folder. I have to check my spam folder semi-regularly because gmail keeps flagging perfectly legitimate email as spam.) The mail I get from Amazon is order confirmations and a newsletter that I specifically signed up for. What's this promotional email that you're ta…
http://imgur.com/yqsYyPY of the 64 emails I have from them 50 are spam of this nature.
You signed up to be their customer, and you can turn these off. That they do this by default isn't ideal, but it's not spam - you have a business relationship with them.
Re: Google seems to have broken email forwarding
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Personally speaking I downvoted your comment because I often downvote things that smack of conspiracy thinking - never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. Another issue I have with your argument - I don't believe Gmail has the market share to make such a fiendish strategy viable.
So andybak, congratulations on clinging to a sweet sounding one-liner, but let's think a little more about it. So anytime something bad happens to a person (their wallet or phone is stolen, or their family dog is killed), and the victim believes the perpetrator acted maliciously, would you tell them that "smacks of conspiracy thinking" (whatever that means to you)? Another educational moment for you would be to look…
I actually used the term "conspiracy thinking" and I would regard this as a noun phrase with a meaning distinct from "conspiracy".
Re: Google seems to have broken email forwarding
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http://imgur.com/yqsYyPY of the 64 emails I have from them 50 are spam of this nature.
You signed up to be their customer, and you can turn these off. That they do this by default isn't ideal, but it's not spam - you have a business relationship with them.
it is spam.
just because i signed up for amazon.com, doesn't mean they get to spam me crap because they've buried a 2pt font unsubscribe feature that may or may not work over the course of a few weeks.
Re: Google seems to have broken email forwarding
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> how customers can't turn off everything but confirmations I'm a customer, I consider that opt out. You don't? I signed up for amazon, not their bullshit emails. That you consider the situation opt in shows they have you trained well.
Nice, ad hom, and I can't downvote your insulting comment! How about this: are you too lazy to uncheck a few check boxes? Because that's all it takes, and then you'll only get order and shipping confirmations.
You shouldn't be insulted, I said you were trained well. Yes, I am too lazy to opt out of spam that should be opt in. Lazy like a fox.