Well, we know they get an email address and, quite probably, a username associated with an account. Of course, that would only be of value to someone doing something sketchy...
Alternatively, he gets a large sample size of unwanted emails with unsubscribe links. This would be useful for someone writing a gmail plugin (or Thunderbird plugin, or new mail service, or whatever) designed to deal with unwanted mail that's not fully spam (i.e. complies with CAN-SPAM) but which is not desired by the recipient.
Re:Unsubscriber
by philipharry on Monday July 23, 2012 @04:13PM
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The second paragraph, yes, that's my thinking. If @m5rk and I write up enough rules and process, with enough data, that would be useful to some biz like, oh, gmail. Maybe.
Re:Unsubscriber
by philipharry on Monday July 23, 2012 @04:09PM
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The captcha bit was me just fooling. There are no captchas for unsubscribing. Well, I've never seen any, at least.
I did this for 2 reasons:
1) It was an absurdly simple MVP. 2) I actually have been looking for this service, so I wanted to see if others had any interest. 3) Wait, 3?
What do they want with our spam?