Originally
posted by
Jim Sachs:
Maybe the systems have matured and we should try it again. It was draconian a few years ago. Out of a hundred thousand emails, if just a couple report you, you're banned.
Unsubscribe buttons never really work because people know that they are usually just a way of determining that someone is really at your address.
Lots of companies, big and small, seem to be able to make legitimate "subscribed" email work now, without being blocked improperly.
Today, I got subscribed email from Edmund Scientific, Computerworld, Borders, Amazon, .......
Unsubscribe buttons "work" becaue people have to forward the actual email (claimed to be spam) to the blockers. If there's a legitimate unsubscribe (as opposed to fishing for email addresses), the sites won't block.