alt Hacker NewsThey clearly fit within the definition of transactional.
They are part of the transaction and they are not an ongoing marketing mailing list. They end completely after 14 days.
The author described them as "marketing" but did not disclose the content in any way.
A transactional message is something like "Thank you for signing up" or "Your password was changed" once per transaction. Hence, transactional.
Regardless how much they and you want to spin it, this is a 14 day marketing campaign. A single transaction (ie. subscribing) should not result in 14 emails sent. And certainly not one a day. By that logic I can send you unlimited emails because you bought one thing from me once and somehow consider all of them "transactional".