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With the trusted ones, like LinkedIn, I find that you can drastically reduce the number of notifications by tweaking the settings. My thinking is this. If I don't want email from a particular site I either unsubscribe or adjust the settings to not get email. If that doesn't work I consider it spam, report it to Gmail, and it is gone--I don't see it anymore. So, I don't get the point of using an address to collect this spam just so I never have to look at it. If I never look at it, what's the point of getting it sent to me? I have read that a large percentage of email traffic is unwanted by the recipients--maybe over 50%. It seems to me that good email citizens will assist in reducing that unwanted traffic by unsubscribing from things they don't want and reporting email from places that refuse to honor your preferences.
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