[aestra]

And here I was wondering why a few months ago legit emails that I asked for were starting to show up in my spam folder, including all the facebook emails I asked facebook to send me. (I don't log into facebook so if someone messages me or invites me to an event I'll need an email otherwise I'll miss it).

So now I have to check my spam folder emails regularly and put filter on the domains that end up there "no, don't send to spam filter."

Why can't you just use a filter instead of messing up other people's email?

[freehunter]

Why should I have to create a filter when I never asked for the email in the first place?

If you're emailing me and I didn't ask you to, that's the definition of spam. Gmail has one button that does two functions. Report spam and unsubscribe. There's no way to have Gmail automatically unsubscribe you from a third party list without also reporting spam, so that's the only option I have. (On a side note, Facebook is something I use quite often so I have my settings there tuned to never send me an email. So your Facebook woes are not because of me, at least).

Mosquitoes serve a purpose as well, but I won't apologize for using a fly swatter.

[aestra]

In Gmail - Click on "more" then "filter messages like these" as so - http://i.imgur.com/OdJpKoE.png and set messages from that sender to be automatically deleted.

[freehunter]

That neither marks it as spam nor does it unsubscribe me from the list. 99% of the time the message falls into at least one of those categories, and 99% of that, they fall into both spam and something I want to unsubscribe from.

I don't need three or four clicks to get rid of troublesome emails that I never asked for. Gmail has a handy "report spam" that covers 99.99% of every unwanted email I get.