alt Hacker NewsI believe this is combined with something I call "asymmetry blindness". They may say "but we send an single e-mail per month, this can't be bad".
We the users get a barrage of e-mails everyday because every marketing team is thinking we only get their mail, and it makes our lonely and cold mailbox merrier.
No, users are in constant "Tsunami warning!" mode and these teams are not helping.
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I'm pretty sure some people have performance metrics attached to their "newsletter".
Indeed. I received 28 unwanted emails of this kind in January so far (just counted), which is a bit more than once per day, despite quite avidly unsubscribing from this kind of emails. This month I had to unsubscribe from ChatGPT and GitHub emails of this kind too, although I don’t recall opting in to them in the first place and neither of them spammed me until recently.
If they were sending just one per month I might actually read them occasionally. It's the three a day from the likes of aliexpress that get deleted without a second glance.
But yes, you're absolutely right - "no raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood".