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by moron4hire 4515 days ago
To these sort of places:

I wish you would just plain stop emailing me. Signing up for your service should not be license for you to spam my inbox. Yes, I know, technically I did give you approval to email me. But you email me more often than my mother, and my mother emails me a lot. Stop it. You're creepy and annoying. If you were a coworker, I'd report you to HR or the police for stalking me.

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A lot of services now don't even offer the opt-out for email marketing, for example, when you sign-up for Twitter you expect notifications, but they also opt-you-in for all their other emails; it's not just Twitter, I see more and more companies removing the opt-out and instead offering the unsubscribe button, thinking it's at least OK to send me junk-mail once, in the hope that I'll be interested. Unfortunately, marking it as spam does very little since their volume is so high.
You could just unsubscribe..?
I have yet to see that actually work. I still get emails from supposedly legit companies, stuff like, "We know you unsubscribed, but perhaps you'd like to give it another go?" I never got back together with any of my ex girlfriends, I'm not getting back together with any of my ex services.
Really? I've yet to see that. The worst I see is companies like Facebook automatically opting me in to new notifications they create, but they do this maybe twice a year and it takes two minutes to uncheck the boxes in account settings, so not really an issue.
Filters or unsubscribe?

I would live to have this sort of problems. My email is in github for quite some time, and I get a lot of spam.