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Our newsletters have been growing rapidly—which is awesome! Given the tremendous interest readers expressed in segments, we redesigned the newsletter structure and layout to provide you with more targeted content.

Here’s the glitch. Upgrading our newsletters may have accidentally resubscribed readers who have previously unsubscribed. If you’re one of these people, our sincerest apologies. While we’re in the process of fixing this mess, we can’t subscribe you to our newsletters on an individual basis. This means that you can either receive all newsletters (5 per week) … or none. We know this is unfortunate - but hope you opt for the former while we fix this mess

Here’s the fix. It will take us two weeks, but once it’s fixed – we promise it will be worth the wait. You’ll have an easy to use newsletter manage page where you can sign up for the newsletters you want, however often you want them. Easy, fine-grained control of segments so that you receive only the content that’s interesting to you! If you love lighting but couldn’t care less about surface trends, that’s cool with us. If you only want to hear about Green Trends on a bi-weekly basis, that’s how often we’ll send it.Why aren’t we stopping these emails all together in the interim? They’re valuable to people. We won’t deny 50k other readers content that makes their jobs easier and lives happier because a small percentage of readers are annoyed. Simple cost/benefit ratio.

If you want to unsubscribe forever–please do so in both boxes below. This will ensure that in 3 weeks, when the fix is deployed, you won’t start receiving the new ones.

If you don’t unsubscribe–leave a comment with your twitter handle and we’ll tell our 7k twitter followers how patient and awesome you’ve been.

Either way–you can publicly berade us by leaving a really nasty comment below.At the end of the day, let’s put things in perspective. We know how annoying unwanted email is. But it isn’t like we just dumped a gazillion gallons of oil into the gulf…right?