When Websites Won’t Take No for an Answer

Re:When Websites Won’t Take No for an Answer by arjie on Saturday May 14, 2016 @03:49PM (#11697740)

If a single click doesn't unsubscribe, I click Report Spam. Gmail takes care of it from there on.

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Re:When Websites Won’t Take No for an Answer by ikeboy on Saturday May 14, 2016 @03:52PM (#11697762)

But if it's an otherwise legitimate company, not enough people will do that and so Gmail won't end up flagging it.

(I don't think spam flags are personalized, so even to me future emails wouldn't go to spam. I could set up a filter, though.)

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Re:When Websites Won’t Take No for an Answer by pluma on Saturday May 14, 2016 @04:08PM (#11697827)

Depending on where you and the company are, you can actually sue them.

EDIT: To clarify: in Germany you can sue companies for spam and making the opt-out unnecessarily difficult. Of course the damages are so trivial you'll likely overpay but there are enough bored lawyers that these things tend to happen every now and then.

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Re:When Websites Won’t Take No for an Answer by ikeboy on Saturday May 14, 2016 @04:14PM (#11697851)

In the US you can't.

I looked up the federal law at one point and private individuals had no rights beyond reporting to the FTC. ISPs may have standing if they can show harm.

See https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/inbox/can-spam_standing and http://www.dwt.com/advisories/9th_Circuit_Deals_Blow_to_Prof...

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Re:When Websites Won’t Take No for an Answer by bitJericho on Sunday May 15, 2016 @01:47AM (#11699637)

My state has laws on spam and you can sue.

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Re:When Websites Won’t Take No for an Answer by ikeboy on Sunday May 15, 2016 @08:29AM (#11700652)

Which state? One of the links in my comment says that canspam supersedes state laws, although I don't know how far that goes.

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Re:When Websites Won’t Take No for an Answer by bitJericho on Sunday May 15, 2016 @08:43AM (#11700692)

http://www.legis.nd.gov/cencode/t51c27.pdf

I see now that the majority of this document could have expired. Not sure where to find these "notes" that the document talks about. It also says federal law would preempt. So yeah... talk to a lawyer I guess!

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Re:When Websites Won’t Take No for an Answer by ikeboy on Sunday May 15, 2016 @09:27AM (#11700814)

According to http://www.spamlaws.com/state/nd.shtml it expires when a federal law is passed and comes into law that supersedes it.

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