That's a little like trusting the fox in the henhouse because the industry had its chance. Your life remains an open book to amoral and avaricious creeps. Nothing so symbolizes the duplicity that consumers have to endure in this arena than the spam industry. Spam is junk e-mail, messages sent out to every mailbox known to the spammer. Much of this unsolicited dreck has, at the very end, a sentence or two apologizing for disturbing you.
People hate spam.
Most of us delete this stuff without ever opening it. By taking the spammers up on the offer to remove you from the list, you are instead moving yourself way up on the list of the spammer's e-mail addresses. The spam industry is built on selling other spammers lists of responsive marks, in part because so many people have simply abandoned e-mail addresses that were overflowing with spam. But given the complete contempt that the industry demonstrates for the people who buy its products, we don't have a lot of choice. You will not be charged to look for stories, only to retrieve one.