Re:Can I Email?
by stjohnswarts on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @07:59AM
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It's safer as well. Some (most?) of those "unsubscribe" links have a unique ID hooked in with your email in some database so they know that they have a hit and can send more email to you.
Well, they need something to be able to tell which email to remove from their DB too.
Not all is as sinister as it looks.
The simply solution is to just can any senders that don't respond to unsubscribe requests. But those will be just as bad in plaintext as in HTML, so I don't see why Plaintext means it's not spam, they can do the same thing Plaintext.
The majority of mails in my spam folder is plaintext mail. Second place are the extremely malformed HTML mails. Almost any wellformed HTML mail I receive is solicited at minimum.
I can recommend using the unsubscribe link if you forgot to uncheck the newsletter checkbox during registration. Alternatively send them a mail to A) remind them of the SPAM-CAN act or your local equivalent legislation and B) that they should delete your mail from the newsletter. That works almost always, if not you can always threaten legal action (where I live, that's an easy 600€ of profit in a courtroom).
Whenever I have to interact with a company, I check the spam folder for their replies.
The majority of mails in my spam folder is html mail.