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		yencabulator 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Email could have been X.400 times better I does sound like they made a HTTP GET request have side effects.

dpark 15 days ago [–]

I suspect that’s exactly what they did. And then they “solved” it with a Captcha. Conveniently I bet human unsubscribes also dropped when that was instituted.

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