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I get a ton of spam on my Amazon email. I assume this is via some sellers getting it as part of the return process. I just rotate the mail every six month and drop the old ones into a auto delete rule.

Another is the mail used in domain registries but it’s low volume

The worst offenders are mailing lists I subscribed that fail to respect unsubscribing. I find the smaller they are the worse they are. So many just re-add the mail six months later. There I have a rather fun mail rule.

Any mail from their domain gets an auto reply with an explanation that this isn’t cool, with every support, admin, sales mail I could think of in cc. It includes a list of all the times they mailed me and all the times I asked them to unsubscribe in a list, handily auto generated my a node-red flow.

Yes, it’s pedantic, No I feel no shame.




I would say you are a hero – finally imposing a “cost“ on people who are not prioritizing unsubscribe functionality. As someone who just quietly blocks, I am happy to free ride on your crusade :-)




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