LNKD is down 1%. Related or not, either way, good riddance.
Block and Unsubscribe
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#62Hope this makes its way into the Inbox app as well. That app was announced with great fanfare, but it is still missing some key features (such as composing an email to a group) that are present in the regular app.
I would be really happy if the Inbox application had multiple accounts since I also use Fastmail and yet another account for work. But I guess the "postpone" feature would be impossible to have without access to the other servers.
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#63> That’s why you can now block specific email addresses in Gmail [...] Future mail will go to the spam folder (and you can always unblock in Settings). 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…
I think there's a large enough population of users that filters are too complicated, and this feature is very usable for them.
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#64LNKD is down 1%. Related or not, either way, good riddance.
I deleted my linkedin account and recreated it using an email address I use for catching spam. Haven't had any emails from them since in my real inbox.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
What I don't understand (possibly noob question), is the scenario where I get spam and I click on "Report spam" to be prompted with "Unsubscribe and report spam". 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?
People use the Report Spam button on things that they explicitly signed up for all the time, and Gmail has adjusted its behavior to match how users use it rather than try to persuade them to instead do the right thing.
"The right thing".
The right thing is to not register me to these spam mailing lists in the first place. I did not register, ergo they are spam, and should be blocked from spamming other people. "Report spam" is exactly the correct behavior I intended when I clicked on it.
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#66Hilton hotels, can't unsubscribe because of account login forced. This is my new fix!
bestbuy: accepts +bestbuy@gmail.com for account signup, unsubscribe form rejects as invalid email, but they still send things (to spam)
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#67A nice fix for the companies that, either by malice or incompetence, use one regex for their original email field and then another for the email field used to unsubscribe. IOW, if you ordered something, used "foobar+musiciansfriend@gmail.com" (which Musician's Friend takes just fine), then went to unsubscribe, the email field regex for that screen will complain about the "+". Off to the spam bucket you go, Musician's Friend, and my purchase dollars now go to Sweetwater.
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#68If I recall correctly, in the early days of the Internets that used to be block (ban) and kick
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#69A nice fix for the companies that, either by malice or incompetence, use one regex for their original email field and then another for the email field used to unsubscribe. IOW, if you ordered something, used "foobar+musiciansfriend@gmail.com" (which Musician's Friend takes just fine), then went to unsubscribe, the email field regex for that screen will complain about the "+". Off to the spam bucket you go, Musician's…
That was definitely a problem with Ticketmaster. It might still be, but I've long since marked it as spam.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's amazing how many unsubscribe links, which are mandated by law, are broken or flaky. I just "report spam" now when that happens, and it totally works. No regrets.
Exactly, "report spam" already serves well as "block" as well as "unsubscribe".
I try to unsub first, because if I opted in they don't deserve to be marked as spam. But if your unsub method doesn't work. You are 100% going to get on every spam list I can put you on.