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    From Davey@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 12 13:09:56 2015
    Google offers to attempt to unsubscribe you from an address you report
    as Spam, by sending an Unsubscribe message. Is this not a sure-fire way
    of telling the Sender that there is, in fact, somebody actually at this address?

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    Davey.

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  • From Rob Morley@21:1/5 to Davey on Sat Sep 12 15:33:58 2015
    On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 13:09:56 +0100
    Davey <davey@example.invalid> wrote:

    Google offers to attempt to unsubscribe you from an address you report
    as Spam, by sending an Unsubscribe message. Is this not a sure-fire
    way of telling the Sender that there is, in fact, somebody actually
    at this address?

    That's probably the case if they are indeed a spammer, but there are
    also probably plenty of legitimate organisations that will act properly
    on an unsubscribe request. Fortunately Gmail does quite a good job of
    spotting and blocking spammers, so I don't think you need to worry about
    it too much.

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  • From Davey@21:1/5 to Rob Morley on Sat Sep 12 20:13:50 2015
    On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 15:33:58 +0100
    Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 13:09:56 +0100
    Davey <davey@example.invalid> wrote:

    Google offers to attempt to unsubscribe you from an address you
    report as Spam, by sending an Unsubscribe message. Is this not a
    sure-fire way of telling the Sender that there is, in fact,
    somebody actually at this address?

    That's probably the case if they are indeed a spammer, but there are
    also probably plenty of legitimate organisations that will act
    properly on an unsubscribe request. Fortunately Gmail does quite a
    good job of spotting and blocking spammers, so I don't think you need
    to worry about it too much.


    Absolutely agreed on the efficiency of Google Mail Spam ID, it is very
    good.

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    Davey.

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