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by xmodem 1431 days ago
There is a marketing company that is constantly adding me to new spammy lists they are creating. They are using AWS SES / SendGrid / other reputable providers.

The emails all pass SPF/DKIM/DMARC and filing abuse reports seems to get me taken off the list I complained about but I quickly get added to a different one.

I am this close to auto-blocking anything from these large providers and switching to allow-listing the legitimate domains that can send me e-mail.
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XorNot 1431 days ago
Unfortunately Google doesn't let you filter on arbitrary headers, otherwise at this point I'd delete everything with a List-Unsubscribe header.
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xmodem 1431 days ago
Hmm, it looks like you can do this with Apple's Mail client.
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egberts1 1431 days ago
really?

edited:

yeah, add two rules to macOS Mail app:

* delete From: “info@twitter.com” rule

* delete From: “twitter” rule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtB1OFNN4Ak

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WorldMaker 1431 days ago
I feel this. Because of a Google Group I briefly followed one of my email addresses got incorrectly associated with my Kickstarter account on some marketing list somewhere and gets added to so much "legitimate" marketing lists for fly-by-night Kickstarters. It's really frustrating and the accident of it being a "wrong" email at least makes it somewhat easier to manage (though I worry if I ignore that mailbox too much I may miss the rare once in a few years important email to it).

For a while MailChimp was the only one of the major/reputable providers I trusted the Unsubscribe button on because they had a "I did not sign up for this button" that supposedly dinged the mailing list owner's reputation with them, but more than that would supposedly make it a bit tougher for the next mailing list to just dump that email in without a verification step or a cool off period.

That button disappeared recently and I guess MailChimp no longer cares either. Shame.

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inferiorhuman 1426 days ago
> For a while MailChimp was the only one of the major/reputable providers I trusted the Unsubscribe button on

Mailchimp is up there with Marketo and Sendgrid for me. Getting unsubscribed from something I never opted into… well I still haven't figured out how to do that.

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