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Once upon a time, the footer of emails from Area 51 (e.g. when a proposed site you follow moved to commitment phase) looked like this:
There was a clear link to unsubscribe. All good.
However, today I noticed this has been changed:
I am pretty sure we can still unsubscribe by going to the "old" link manually, but the link is not sent in the email anymore.
Can the link please be added back, for those who want to unsubscribe easily?
Talked to the developer responsible here; the original plan was to integrate the Area 51 opt-out process into the new system used by the other sites... But, this hasn't happened yet and may not happen for a while.
So the change has been reverted and should now be live. Future emails from Area 51 will again contain a quick "unsubscribe" link that simply turns off email notifications for proposals you've followed or committed to.
As I said in the comments above, there should be no legal ramifications here; we're not spamming people with emails for proposals, you'll only get 'em if you've gone out of your way to follow or commit to a proposal (at which point, further communication regarding the progress of the proposed site should be expected and would fall outside of the marketing definition used by CAN-SPAM). Nevertheless, it is an expected convenience, and given the option still exists to opt-out of these on-site...
...it seems appropriate to also provide it in the actual emails.
