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by sScTE9qEMCxEk34 995 days ago
> Here we go, this is the meat. So if someone wants to annoy you, they can sign up for your newsletter and hit the spam button and everyone will stop receiving all email from your site (such as signup confirmations, password resets... you're basically out of business).

Except everyone already does that and the bar is, presumably, significantly higher than one person.

> the spam button is meant for spam, not for anything they don't want to receive anymore

What you're seeing is that the spam button is meant for spam, i.e. anything they don't want to receive. Trust me, they didn't want to receive it in the first place.

If I had a dime for every crappy company who signed me up for emails without my consent because I had one interaction with their business that involved an email, and then switches their entire "newsletter" infrastructure yearly... I wonder why...

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> What you're seeing is that the spam button is meant for spam, i.e. anything they don't want to receive. Trust me, they didn't want to receive it in the first place.

Third reply I read to my comment, third accusation.

What makes you think I am some sort of soulless adfarm person? What in my comment gives you that impression?

Trust me, if you receive an email from my server, you want to read it because: you asked for it. I don't send unsolicited email, I don't run a commercial service. Go complain to someone else if you have a problem with their service, don't blame me for your inbox problems

Then why are you so worried about people clicking spam? If they want to read your email, they're not going to mark your email as spam.