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Well, the people that I know don't read their personal email unless they are looking for a password reset or a one time code.

once everyone started requiring an email as a user name, inboxes of normal people are just spam that's part of the deal for signing up for something.

It's basically useless these days, but it's not technically spam because they made you click the link when you signed up.

Sure you could unsubscribe, and I do, and my technical friends do, but the rest just ignore it unless they need it for a specific action. I'd have to call or text all my friends to let them know I'd sent them an email with a link to a post, and at that point, I could just text them the post and at that point, it's kinda . . . idk, not great.



I dunno, Substack is doing pretty well.




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