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Re:We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees by jonhohle on Monday April 13, 2026 @10:53AM (#47752890)
Doesn’t compute.

He probably meant that “customer” is not making him money, therefore not worth the time. The only reason unsubscribing works at all is probably a legal requirement.

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Re:We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees by TeMPOraL on Monday April 13, 2026 @12:04PM (#47754084)
It does, probabilistically. For any given customer C, the expected value EV(C) is... not much. By starting an opt-out process, a customer Co is revealed to have EV(Co) = 0, which is less than not much.
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Re:We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees by eru on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @12:03AM (#47761097)
Though it's making the other customers statistically more valuable.
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