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i wish devs understood something: whatever pathological behavior you're participating in is just that: pathological. 99.99999999% of people just read emails and do nothing insidious/clever/nefarious. there are literally like 5 people like you and 100,000 people just reading the email and either clicking or not clicking, buying or not buying, etc.


Unsubscribing from spam is now considered pathological?. Damn, marketing on the internet has really gone overboard


you're being facetious so i'm going to quote the person running the email campaign that responds directly:

>It's not generally a significant effect, unsubscribe rates tend to be well under 1%. Most people just ignore emails they don't want.

under %1 is almost by definition "pathological"


Thank you for saying this. Agree 1000%




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