Are you suggesting that an unsub results in a suppression?  That hardly seems 
ideal.  That seems to suggest I sign up for a brand's email list.  Order some 
stuff, get receipt.  Later unsub.  Later buy again, but get no receipt?  
(Presuming it comes from the same ESP)

--
Alex Brotman
Sr. Engineer, Anti-Abuse & Messaging Policy
Comcast
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From: mailop <[email protected]> on behalf of Mike Hillyer via mailop 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2023 9:02:54 AM
To: Chris Adams <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [mailop] Legit-looking mail to the wrong address with 
no unsubscribe

Adding an unsub link for truly transactional mail can result is missed messages 
later on, which is why there's usually not an unsub link.

You get a doordash status message, you decide you don't need them, you 
unsubscribe. A couple of months later you need to reset your password and now 
you never get the reset link because you unsubscribed from transactional 
messages? Sure, we can get infinitely granular or always exempt password 
resets, but it becomes a slippery slope that results in a lot of engineering 
hours.

And as I said at the start of this message, I am only applying this logic to 
truly transactional messages, which in my mind are those triggered by a user 
action and those in the chain of events triggered by a user action. If someone 
at the vendor has to click Send, it's not a transactional message.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: mailop <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chris Adams via mailop
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2023 8:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [mailop] Legit-looking mail to the wrong address with no unsubscribe

What do you do when legitimate mail (lately, DoorDash order info and Delta 
Airlines tickets) is sent to the wrong address?  These types of messages rarely 
have an unsubscribe method.  I get a ton of crap to a Gmail address that I 
really only use for Google-related stuff (not as a general email box), so I 
know instantly that this is not to me.

Why do vendors think they don't need an unsubscribe in this type of mail?  Just 
because their customers are dumb and don't know their own email address doesn't 
mean they should continue sending personal information about them to other 
people.
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Chris Adams <[email protected]>
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