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You’re not paying attention to what you’re reading. The parent comment is saying some users will do this on all newsletters, even ones they signed ip for.

We’re talking about newsletters that only add people who sign up after a double opt in. We still have to manage this user behaviour.

Proactive pruning is the best tool that exists now. So we’ll have to figure out something new. One likely result is more paid newsletters and more moves to centralized platforms like substack which can deal with this.



> You’re not paying attention to what you’re reading. The parent comment is saying some users will do this on all newsletters, even ones they signed ip for.

I was paying attention, I was commenting on specifically:

> they hit the spam button when unsubscribe has a confirm step

Even if I've signed up for a newsletter, if I have to jump through (varying degrees) of hoops to unsubscribe, you are spam.




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