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I'm really interested in Lamson and Zed Shaw continues his impressive output, but this service seems fruitless. I can unsubscribe from any reputable company's mailing list. Most useful alerts already come in both HTML and text variants. If I really don't want the mail, I click "report spam". Gmail has already "solved" the spam problem for me anyway.

Why would I use this really?

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It's also solved the images thing too, letting us choose what we see outside of simple text.

These people think subscribing to a service makes things easier on us, when in the end it's just making things more complicated, and honestly it's likely wasting more time too. And that's assuming middle-man service doesn't go belly up sometime in the future and force us to manually resubscribe to everything all over again.

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