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ilamonttoday at 1:37 AM2 repliesview on HN

Beat me to it. Why isn’t every unsolicited pitch without an unsubscribe link immediately blocked/marked as spam?


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itintheorytoday at 2:41 PM

Is the presence of an unsubscribe link a useful signal? I presume that just marks your email address as active in the spammer's database.

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BLKNSLVRtoday at 1:57 AM

Not to mention the obviously unrelated-to-publishing, dodgy sounding email addresses. Red flag #1 where only a single red flag is needed to discard it.

Having said that, less technically minded people, as authors may be, may not even notice that.

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