{"id":1855,"date":"2010-09-15T22:17:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T03:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2010-09-15T22:18:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T03:18:02","slug":"unsubscribe-com-making-email-easier-to-manage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2010\/09\/15\/unsubscribe-com-making-email-easier-to-manage","title":{"rendered":"Unsubscribe.com, making email easier to manage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unsubscribe.com\/\">Unsubscribe.com<\/a>, from Fred Wilson&#8217;s recent post about how he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avc.com\/a_vc\/2010\/09\/inbox-zero.html\">works towards achieving Inbox Zero.<\/a> I don&#8217;t use GMail as my main client, preferring to currently use Apple Mail after I ditched Thunderbird earlier this year. However, most of my email accounts are now based on GMail, thanks to the wonders of Google Apps for Domains.<\/p>\n<p>Unsubscribe is exactly what I&#8217;ve been after. I get subscribed to a lot of mailing lists and instead of marking things as spam (sometimes in my MUA, sometimes on GMail), I&#8217;d rather just get off the mailing list so it does not clog up Google&#8217;s servers. Another problem is that my oldest email account is now fifteen years old, so it tends to get clogged up with quite a lot of <em>crap<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Signing up was easy. Installing the plugin for Firefox was also easy. Hitting the limit of five email unsubscribes per month was dead easy! I had to quickly grab my credit card and get the limit lifted (if only they offered Paypal as an option).<\/p>\n<p>I ended up using it in a mixed-mode environment. I tried to use it in the browser for some of my various Google Apps for Domains accounts. It worked a charm. Then I moved back to my MUA, and started forwarding emails to mail@unsubscribe.com. That too, worked a charm. One click (and one forward) unsubscribe is just too easy.<\/p>\n<p>Considering I have too many email accounts and not all of them have GMail access, I had to write their support line a quick email. Within a few hours, they fixed my problem &#8211; they whitelisted all my email addresses, and if I need more, they&#8217;ll gladly whitelist more. They also told me that they&#8217;re working on an interface to allow users to add their own email addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Service within a few hours. Absolutely love it. Can smell that they are a great startup to watch. Well worth the USD$19\/year fee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> In the 2 days that I&#8217;ve been using it, on day 1 I got off 78 mailing lists, and on day 2 another 51.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned about Unsubscribe.com, from Fred Wilson&#8217;s recent post about how he works towards achieving Inbox Zero. I don&#8217;t use GMail as my main client, preferring to currently use Apple Mail after I ditched Thunderbird earlier this year. 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