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by rvkennedy 4847 days ago
It improves their behaviour. I have lost count of the number of mailing lists I have had to unsubscribe because I simply used their product, without explicitly asking to be put on the list. That's spam, whether they bought my email, or just took it from some other list that they legitimately had.

MailChimp etc are for messages you explicitly sign up for.