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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by thaumasiotes on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:50PM (#9152443)
Speaking as a person who frequently buys from Amazon, I've never experienced this. (No, it's not that promotional email from Amazon is going into my spam folder. I have to check my spam folder semi-regularly because gmail keeps flagging perfectly legitimate email as spam.) The mail I get from Amazon is order confirmations and a newsletter that I specifically signed up for. What's this promotional email that you're talking about?
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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by throwawayaway on Thursday March 05, 2015 @05:37PM (#9154377)
http://imgur.com/yqsYyPY

of the 64 emails I have from them 50 are spam of this nature.

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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by Tiksi on Friday March 06, 2015 @12:50AM (#9155783)
And if you open any of them, there is a convenient link to unsubscribe from them:

http://paste.click/fOAtyL

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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by throwawayaway on Friday March 06, 2015 @04:30AM (#9156309)
Are you saying they are opt out? because I think that is what you are saying? Way to miss the point.
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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by Tiksi on Friday March 06, 2015 @10:49AM (#9157592)
No I'm saying you opted in, and can now opt back out.
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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by throwawayaway on Friday March 06, 2015 @03:27PM (#9159367)
didn't!
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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by thaumasiotes on Friday March 06, 2015 @03:18AM (#9156124)
I can't help but notice that all of those come from amazon.co.uk. As evidence-free speculation, perhaps there's a problem at a lower level than "Amazon the company". This sort of thing would certainly help explain why some people are extremely upset about spam from "Amazon" and other people are taking the position "you're crazy".
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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by npsimons on Friday March 06, 2015 @10:51AM (#9157600)
You signed up to be their customer, and you can turn these off. That they do this by default isn't ideal, but it's not spam - you have a business relationship with them.
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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by throwawayaway on Friday March 06, 2015 @03:25PM (#9159355)
it is spam.

just because i signed up for amazon.com, doesn't mean they get to spam me crap because they've buried a 2pt font unsubscribe feature that may or may not work over the course of a few weeks.

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