Re: gmail unsubscribe button

 
From: "Mary Ann Kelley maryann@PROTECTED [Dada Mail Developers]" <dadadev@PROTECTED>
In-Reply-To: (no subject)
Date: August 19th 2016
I understand (and appreciate the need to stop the abuse) but that doesn’t apply to my requests. All of them are actual subscribers. I would love it if gmail would use the link instead of the reply to address, but I don’t think I’m going to bend gmail to my will. ;)

At the moment I’m going with a reply using text expander which says:

Thank you for your reply. If you wish to unsubscribe, please use the unsusbscription link at the bottom of every mailing (replying does not unsubscribe addresses). If you have any trouble with the link, please let us know. Have a great day!

At least that way they know they aren’t being ignored but I don’t have to stop what I’m doing and go unsubscribe people every time I get one.

Warm regards,

Mary Ann




On Aug 16, 2016, at 12:47 PM, Justin J justin@PROTECTED [Dada Mail Developers] <dadadev@PROTECTED> wrote:


Here's what I mea by abuse. I've gotten some of these messages from Gmail, but when I look up the address, I see that they are not subscribed. So, what gives? Digging a little deeper, it seems the address did fill out the subscription form, but then never confirmed it. So, why are they trying to unsubscribe from a list they're not subscribed on, yet? 

Looking for the address on stopforumspam.com, it comes out as negative - no one is reporting it as being abusive. 

But, if I look the history of subscription requests, I see that a number of addresses are trying to subscribe from that same IP address, over a small amount of time, which is suspicious. 

So suspicious, that the latest version of Dada Mail blocks that sort of behavior. 

I don't know if you're seeing the same thing - that these unsubscribe messages are coming from bots trying to subscribe to your list, but it's what I'm seeing. Upgrading to the latest version will help at the very least, with false positives, so if you do need to manually remove addresses, it'll make the job go quicker, 

I describe this more  in this blog post, 

http://blog.dadamailproject.com/2016/08/02/dada-mails-subscription-abuse-prevention-systems/

under, 

Blocking Suspicious IP Address Activity

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