Comment on In a world full of spam, and then you read this
Polar@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Once a company wouldn’t stop emailing me despite unsubscribing. I sent them multiple emails with no response.
Then I heard that if enough people mark a sender as spam, Google starts automatically considering them spam for everyone. I emailed them to let them know this, and told them if they didn’t remove me, I would mark them as spam which would affect them majorly.
They replied to my email within minutes and told me I was unsubscribed and would never receive another email from them lmao
Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Why would you issue a warning to a spammer I stead of using the tools as intended, and just marking it as spam anyway? It clearly was. All you did here was pass the buck to someone else now.
Polar@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
I did both, but I wanted my email removed from their system. I hate my spam box being filled up if I can help it.
Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Understandable. I really doubt emails actually get removed from systems they get sold at that point and kept in the database that’s not actively used.
PickTheStick@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Some email systems now won’t mark things as spam. They’ll have a popup window asking if you want them to help you unsubscribe from the shit. I about blew it when I saw that.
Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Ive seen email systems with that, I’ve never seen an email system use that as a substitute for a Spam or junk flag however, I think maybe either you’re confused or have a really odd mail client
dan@upvote.au 2 years ago
Gmail does it. Emails from mailing lists often have a header that specifies an email address you can email to unsubscribe (you just need to send an empty email to the address). Gmail detects this header and asks you if you want to unsubscribe instead of marking as spam. If you do, it sends the unsubscribe email for you.