As they describe, they literally cannot unsubscribe though, so from that perspective marking it as spam is totally legit
I see your overall argument, however this dilemma is ultimately caused by PayPal's ruthless/unpredictable ban policy
I see your overall argument, however this dilemma is ultimately caused by PayPal's ruthless/unpredictable ban policy
Or use GDPR or some other legal option if you have time to spare and want to cost them some time=money in dealing with your request.
If it keeps the undesired email from landing in this person's inbox, it certainly sounds like it's helping to me.
Maybe some providers also denylist the sender-receiver pair when you click spam to combat this problem nowadays; back when I used public email services this was rarely the case. Nowadays I use a different system altogether so I don't know if this might now be common.
Either way, this is not what the spam button is for, but from this subthread I see that enough people on HN already don't understand how these systems work (and education is hard: people don't even read relevant oneliners pushed in their face at a relevant time, such as error messages), so I guess there's no hope for the general public altogether. I didn't know this is an entirely lost cause and is making me rethink about reporting spam on platforms like reddit. I guess they get so many false positives that I'm wasting my time reporting anything as spam ever.