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Re:Email Marketing to Developers by Animats on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:44PM (#34142227)
My reaction to all marketing emails is one or more of:

- Delete

- Flag sender as spammer in Thunderbird.

- Click unsubscribe link.

- File abuse complaint with sending service.

I have never bought anything in response to a marketing email.

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Re:Email Marketing to Developers by mway on Monday December 26, 2022 @05:00PM (#34142373)
Strongly agree.

The more that time goes on, the more that I feel like email is predominantly a combination of "automated account features" and "ambiguously-actionable spam". I'm sure some folks have meaningful communication via email, but for me - as much as I hate to say it - email is mostly a dead medium in which everything is suspicious by default because SNR is overwhelmingly low.

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