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Comment by ck2 | Hacker News Reader

Now give me a filter

    has unsubscribe link > mark as spam

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Just because you can unsubscribe from something doesn't mean it's spam. Your statement just means that you don't know what "spam" actually means.

I do not subscribe to newsletters. Period. If an email sent to me has an unsubscribe link, it is most certainly spam.

Jesus, this would be awful. Not every email with an unsubscribe link is spam, not even close. Every time you hit that spam button you put the sender's business in jeopardy. As someone who relies on email to make their business work, I provide multiple unsubscribe links in all my emails, please use them!

The issue is with the ones that don't have a unsubscribe link and ask you to send them a fax or mail them to be unsubscribed.

I think it's implying that services which you intentionally (or accidentally) subscribed to usually have a setting when you log into their service in which you can enable/disable their marketing emails.

Conversely, emails you get in which you can only subscribe through a link in the email or elsewhere is almost always some shit you never signed up to, thus, spam.

I'd love that one too. It's tiring to have to do it manually all the time.

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