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Re:Email Patterns for Web Apps by scarecrowbob on Saturday March 08, 2014 @12:21PM (#7365706)
"I don't think that's the right test - because it would mean i would get no emails at all."

I believe that all those emails you list pass the test ofyou specifically wanting to receive "a similar email from the dozens, sometimes hundreds, of companies with which I have accounts?"

Re:Email Patterns for Web Apps by nmcfarl on Saturday March 08, 2014 @12:50PM (#7365788)
They don’t - I don’t want email with a receipt from every company I have an account with. Nor do I want appointment reminders, nor e-cards from every business I do business with.

The right emails from the right people. Everything is spam in the wrong context.