You are getting down voted (rightly so IMO) because you posted an irrelevant personal rant in reply to someone who had the temerity to describe a challenge in the modern email system.
You have no idea if the parent sends out a single unsolicited email. All you saw was "newsletter" and you flew off the handle.
Not that you're alone; this happens in every single HN thread about email marketing, and is in my opinion one of the worst killers of signal to noise ratio on HN. We love to talk about "growth hacking" but every mention of email marketing is a race for HN comments denouncing all email as spam.
The fact of the matter is that even the most carefully run, innocuous, double opt-in email newsletter is occasionally reported as spam. I think it is because paranoid tech folks have spent years telling people to never use an unsubscribe link because it just makes the spam worse.
But if it's an email you actually signed up for, the unsubscribe link is the correct and appropriate way to unsubscribe.
You have no idea if the parent sends out a single unsolicited email. All you saw was "newsletter" and you flew off the handle.
Not that you're alone; this happens in every single HN thread about email marketing, and is in my opinion one of the worst killers of signal to noise ratio on HN. We love to talk about "growth hacking" but every mention of email marketing is a race for HN comments denouncing all email as spam.
The fact of the matter is that even the most carefully run, innocuous, double opt-in email newsletter is occasionally reported as spam. I think it is because paranoid tech folks have spent years telling people to never use an unsubscribe link because it just makes the spam worse.
But if it's an email you actually signed up for, the unsubscribe link is the correct and appropriate way to unsubscribe.