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If they normally successfully deliver to gmail, it's safe to assume a large number of people who do receive their emails want to receive them.



This is very charitable. How many people live with the nuisance of mailing (they un- or knowingly subscribed to) VS those who actually go through the trouble of unsubscribing/mark as spam in hope to rid of the from inbox?


I normally just delete mailing list mails. I don't even read them.

This year i decided to do "something" about it, so every mailing list mail received in my inbox that i don't want/care for gets an unsubscribe. It has already reduced my daily mails by a somewhat large amount. It's hard to say exactly how much, but i estimate around 10 emails less every day.

Most of the unsubscribed lists are from companies where i've purchased something andthe seller took the liberty of subscribing me to their mailing list. Those are mostly pre-GDPR that i've just never gotten around to dealing with.

The execption is of course obvious spam mails, to which unbsubscribing will probably do more harm than good.


That conclusion makes zero sense to me unless counting on the nebulous nature of the descriptor, “a large number”. They deliver successfully to my Gmail account on a regular basis so I must want to receive it? Feels like you’re telling me to stop dressing like a slut. ;)




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