Doesn't make sense that I cannot honor a request to remove email followers

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  gtyson105 · Member · Mar 30, 2015 at 8:30 pm

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  I am adding a new blog in addition to my original, topic specific blog. The new blog has broader content. Some of my email followers are interested in the broader content blog, of which the other blog posts are a subset. They have subscribed to the new blog and so no longer want to get emails with post notifications from the topic specific blog.

  I have seen that you cannot remove an email follower under the rationale that these are public blogs but removing their name from an email notification list is not denying anyone access to the blog, its just not pushing it out to them. Can’t I honor the request of my readers and remove their names for them. If I demand they do this themselves I become a pain in their ass.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 30, 2015 at 8:40 pm

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  In the future we bloggers may be able to do as you wish but we cannot do so now. I would publish a blog post containing the instructions on how to unsubscribe from one blog and to how to subscribe to the other.

  Your followers control their own subscriptions – you don’t and can’t do this for them. Here are brief instructions for unsubscribing from a blog if the person has a WordPress.com username account:

  1. click the “unsubscribe” link on the emails of the posts received at the very bottom of the emails.
  2. go here > http://wordpress.com/#!/read/edit/ locate and click the “x” next to any blog there to unfollow it and no longer receive posts in the Reader or by email.
  3. go to the blog in question and click the unfollow/follow link on your Admin bar.

  If the susbcriber does not have a WordPress.com username account then 1. applies.
  1. click the “unsubscribe” link on the emails of the posts received at the very bottom of the emails.