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I work in IT and hit Spam on everything I perceive as spam.
Poison all the data and fuck spammers straight to hell, tyvm.
I’ve seen some people deal with newsletters they signed up for that way and it’s unarguably a misuse and abuse of the system. “I don’t want these messages any longer” is not the same as unsolicited or abusive mail. For instance I see a small chocolate company and a granola company in my spam folder in gmail. Do they “spam”? No, there’s a really huge difference between e-mail marketing and spam. It sounds like what you 'perceive' as spam is based on not really knowing what it is.
Is that some juvenile badassery or something?
yes, fuck spammers but not small companies doing email marketing. Email marketing is the only effective way to grow a business online these days without paying some giant fuckstick corporation like Facebook, so I don't believe what you stated is accomplishing what seems to be your goal. If you make email marketing unusable, that helps google sell ads.
Sorry, but I call horse_shit_ on this. If the only way you can grow your business is to shovel your garbage into my personal inbox, then it's spam, plain and simple.
If I have to give you my e-mail address to order something and you default "sign up for more of my bullshit" to checked, then fuck you.
I see this as "Did I intend to get this email?" Then nothing happens. If I did not intent to receive it then it is spam because I never intentionally subscribe to any marketing emails.
That's accurate and reasonable.