• Polar@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Once a company wouldn’t stop emailing me despite unsubscribing. I sent them multiple emails with no response.

    Then I heard that if enough people mark a sender as spam, Google starts automatically considering them spam for everyone. I emailed them to let them know this, and told them if they didn’t remove me, I would mark them as spam which would affect them majorly.

    They replied to my email within minutes and told me I was unsubscribed and would never receive another email from them lmao

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      1 year ago

      Why would you issue a warning to a spammer instead of using the tools as intended, and just marking it as spam anyway? It clearly was. All you did here was pass the buck to someone else now.

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        1 year ago

        I did both, but I wanted my email removed from their system. I hate my spam box being filled up if I can help it.

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          1 year ago

          Understandable. I really doubt emails actually get removed from systems they get sold at that point and kept in the database that’s not actively used.

  • Square Singer@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    If someone pissed me off enough, I used to enter their email address every time a website wanted me to sign up for a newsletter. And if they asked me for my name while doing so, I’d enter a little message/insult for that person.

  • Izzy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Report as spam and unsubscribe. If they send you more emails they are in violation of the law for the canned spam act.