thoughts from brian samson

Don’t send “Unsubscribe Confirmations”

I recently got some spam from American Airlines, and like usual I went down and clicked the unsubscribe link. A few minutes later I get this:

from American Airlines <AmericanAirlines@na.info.aa.com>
to my@email.address
date Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:26 AM
subject Unsubscribe Confirmation
mailed-by na.info.aa.com

This message is to confirm our receipt of your request to receive no further messages from American Airlines.

Thank you.

Message-Id: <hrc2l0f5nsz6vx4cn6v76Splnv@na.info.aa.com>

This is exactly the opposite of what I wanted to happen. Whoever came up with the idea to send an email to confirm that you will receive no more emails should die of ghonnorea and rot in hell.