you opt out of all, they send crap a year later–presumably without you conducting other business with them in the meantime, correct? hell yea, that’s spam.

Not at all.

Unsolicited email is spam. It’s as simple as that. Dont feel bad about flagging them as such if they won’t respect your contact preferences.

Definitely counts as spam. I give them a few courtesy clicks on the “unsubscribe”, if I still get the chance in yet another email, I go for the “report as spam” as they clearly don’t give a damn.

Also, screw those who require you to login to update your preferences, they also get a quick treatment as above. Take me to the page where I can adjust the types of email I get if you must, but obey the unsubscribe demand by default.

In the end, “report as spam” is two clicks away making it the easiest route to achieve the same result.

Is it mail you want? No? Then it’s spam

I’ll mark them as spam even if I technically signed up for whatever bullshit they’re sending because I didn’t notice the box to uncheck when making an account. It’s a shitty tactic and they’ve all ruined email with it.