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Re:Hey developers, stop forcing me to login to unsubscribe by shadyabhi on Sunday November 10, 2013 @12:14PM (#6707342)
You should generally do Report Spam,at least I do that. If the email was sent from something you didn't actually subscribe, hitting unsubscribe tells the spammer that the email id is in fact genuine which will ultimately get you more spam.
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Re:Hey developers, stop forcing me to login to unsubscribe by tripzilch on Monday November 11, 2013 @04:03AM (#6710676)
Got any recent evidence for this? Because I'm not sure if this is actually still the case.

I don't have the link anymore because this was already a couple of years ago, was someone taking this ages-old advice to the test. Clicking the "unsubscribe" link on all spam delivered to an old spam-infested email address, he found that it reduced the amount of spam received to that address by a significant amount.

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