On 08/13/2014 01:06 PM, Dave Warren wrote:
In short, yes, it is unproductive. The quasi-legitimate stuff does go
away, but the rest doesn't. This was confirmed just recently by Laura on
Word To The Wise, who posted about this just 5 days ago:
https://wordtothewise.com/2014/08/unsubscribing-spam-part-3/
Quote from the linked material:
"During the month of November, I unsubscribed from every commercial
email that came into the account."
So mindlessly unsubscribing from viagra ads, with unsubscribe links,
which have a load of random phrases at the bottom results in a a higher
spam load later... if you are willing to accept data from an n=1
experiment with a low spam count.
What if you have a larger number of accounts, and direct intelligent
users to unsubscribe from emails which seem reasonably legit to them?
