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by paulie_a 2441 days ago
You can basically do what ever you want want with minimal if any repisal

It takes 7 business days to get removed. My ass. It's an instant transaction or the company is incredibly incompetent.

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It was a good story until he got to the point where he assumed that the only reason a step needed approval from another office was "racism."

Seriously? Is he so inexperienced in a corporate setting, or so unimaginative that this is the only thing he can come up with?

the back-end to end all back-ends
The only reasonable explanation for this I've seen is that some of these companies are sending 10s or 100s of thousands of marketing emails, so they use large queuing systems. Sometimes these batch jobs are queued up and fired off some time in advance. 7 days give them a window to cover this queue length.

Sure they could add a 'blacklist' check on the send action level, though.

It's a simple field. I don't care how many emails. It's trivial at best and blatantly illegal at worst. Remove me this second from your spam list. If I unsubscribe and still receive additional emails I report it as spam and to the fcc.

I'm sick of email spam. It doesn't take 7 days. It's a simple database update. "do not send to this person". Done. Its a dark pattern and should be punished.

I have suggested against shitty companies that spam people like. They lost a year contract. 7 days my ass. If you can't get your database working I'd be happy to help.