> Users do not understand the spam button is meant for spam, not for anything they don't want to receive anymore
Users don't want to receive your god damned newsletter. Just stop using email as a marketing channel.
Users don't want to receive your god damned newsletter. Just stop using email as a marketing channel.
I'm sorry if you're as pissed off about marketing garbage as I am but I am not your problem.
At least to hobbyist services like mine, by hitting spam and not using the proper unsubscribe mechanism on emails that are not spam by any definition, it becomes very hard to run these things and not have a quarter of the people (particularly on google services) complain they don't receive the requested email. They assume the problem lies with me because google couldn't possibly ever make a mistake, they're too big for that and clearly it works for everyone else (yeah, everyone else runs commercial services and either indirectly contracts or employs people whose full-time job it is to make sure that sent emails dance to the tune of a few big providers)
> So if someone wants to annoy you, they can sign up for your newsletter
I'm sure you aren't the problem, but in general, every time you do business with any company they sign you up for marketing garbage on an opt-out basis. I personally do actually use the "proper unsubscribe mechanism" on these things but I have absolutely no sympathy for them and I hope Google just decides to unilaterally end this practice.
I rarely have issues with companies which actually abide by things like the CAN SPAM Act.