Email Unsubscribe from Hell

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That's not from hell, you know what's from hell? An unsubscribe button for some website you signed up to years ago with god-knows-what username and password asking you to login to your profile so that you can unsubscribe from their weekly emails about a product you bought once.

The oatmeal puts it well: http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/email/8.png

eBay does this same trick. I opened an account long back, now I am not able to unsubscribe from their list as I do not know the password. To get the password, I have to give the answers to the security questions, which I have already forgotten. Phew.

I have marked their emails as Spam and it straight goes to spam folder.

Yep - my favorite is companies who send you one last email (after you've unsubscribed) just to let you know in case there was some huge mistake.

A total pet peeve, but the companies who send these confirmation emails are the same ones who make you jump through ridiculous hoops - with all the trouble they make you go through to unsubscribe, how could it possibly be a mistake?

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