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50% of my spam are from a single Google Groups source - unsolicited job applications, all ending:

  You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jan-09" group.
  To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
  email to jan-09+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
  
  To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jan-09/0
14101da368d$0bdc8160$23958420$@gmail.com.

I cannot email that unsubscribe link because it says I am not subscribed. I cannot visit that page, I have not subscribed to that group. I've had to set up a special filter to look for that footer.

I am not the only one with this issue. See https://support.google.com/groups/thread/68075070/i-get-goog... .

... Wait! You've indirectly helped solve the issue!

They are being sent to "info@" my domain, an alias that forwards to my real account. I set up a new outgoing account with that From address, sent from there, and managed to get Google to unsubscribe something I never agreed to in the first place.

It's been like this for a year, and with multiple attempts to fix it.

Thank you!



This reminds me, it would be nice if Google had an easy way to blacklist a sender and/or subject such that it wouldn't even go to spam. I have enough spam false positives that I needed to scan my spam folder periodically, and I'd love to have a way to permanently filter out regular crap in there. I've created explicit filters for some of the more prevalent ones, but a one click blacklist button on spam emails would be great. (Along with some way to edit the blacklist in case of mistakes.)




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