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have you tried pressing the "spam" button?

I find that most of these "newsletters" stop arriving in my inbox after I do that (with my gmail account).

If I did not explicitly subscribe to a newsletter, I will hit the SPAM button. I do not care if I completed a transaction with the sender, spam is spam. I don't bother with the unsubscribe links.

I do both. Most companies respect unsubscribe requests and those that persist get blacklisted. This seems like an an easy problem to solve; not sure that it warrants a 650 word blog post.

I'll usually try the unsubscribe button first, if I recognize the name of the sender. But if it is difficult to unsubscribe, or doesn't work effectively, then the SPAM button it is.

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