[DanBC]

> The Litmus team discovered these silent unsubscribers when they noticed a long-time fan removed himself from the Litmus newsletter after sharing an email with 85 of his coworkers.

What an idiot.

People here seem to think unsubs might be malicious; they don't seem to think that people getting email don't want it and just click any unsub link they see. Don't forget that the vast majority of people are hopeless with computers.

Anyone sending email to me along with 85 other people, especially if it's something like the Litmus product, is going to annoy the fuck out of me.

[kintamanimatt]

I'll admit I've clicked the unsubscribe link in a bid to stop the original sender from getting emails that they subsequently forwarded to me. Worked like a charm and prevented them from getting upset when their upset would have caused trouble.

[eli]

That's... awfully passive aggressive.

[kintamanimatt]

I knew someone would say that, but no it's not (not even close!) because it was just a way to stop the stream of garbage without offending someone in a delicate situation. There was no component of aggression.

[eli]

I guess you're entitled to your opinion, but unsubscribing someone from a newsletter because you don't want them to see things they might want to forward to you is definitely passive aggressive in my book (and also not terribly nice, IMHO).

[emn13]

He could have just installed an email filter instead. Though I can imagine a situation in which confronting the sender might be worse. Frankly, I don't understand why people really case so much about manually forwarded junk. I mean, it's trivial to identify; I don't even open it if I don't care, usually. Since it's manual, it's unlikely to turn into a real flood, so I've never noticed this to be a problem...