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Obviously not looking for hyperaccurate answers, just in general, how many people tend to unsubscribe from promotional emails and how many tick the option "I never signed up for this"?

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[โ€“] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have some yank doing that to me regularly on my email address. She has kids, and a car. Get a lot of car repair and rego emails. And childcare emails. I emailed her kids child care to tell them I wasn't in the US, didn't have kids, and couldn't find their unsubscribe button. They sent me irate messages back telling me that her poor toddlers would be sent home if I kept sending things like that... I told them it was a major security risk to send such emails to an unconfirmed email to a random stranger overseas. They eventually got the hint, or possibly phoned the mother, as they eventually shut up, but it took a few tries over several weeks.

I often wonder about her, but she is impossible to communicate with directly. I just get her mail, but have nowhere to forward it to.

[โ€“] jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

My lady has signed up for Care.com to be a nanny, and I frequently get inquiries from families looking to hire her. But yeah, I have no way of actually getting this info to her, since I don't know her real address. I considered doing a password reset to make her have to get another account, but I wasn't sure about the ethics and legalities of that.