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> Most those "nicely designed" emails, to be honest, are spam. Indeed. The number of HTML elements in an email scales pretty linearly with the probability of i
by jjav 6y ago
> Most those "nicely designed" emails, to be honest, are spam.
Indeed. The number of HTML elements in an email scales pretty linearly with the probability of it being spam.
Plain text is almost 100% certain not spam.
- mijamo 6y agoMy experience is opposite. I have never received a scam email with HTML, is always plaintext that tried to mimic a regular conversation.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoYou must have a hell of a spam filter.
- SirHound 6y agoA quick scan of my inbox and spam folders would refute this
- saagarjha 6y agoI just looked through my Junk folder and it took me about 30 seconds to find an email that was sent as plain text. Most of this time was spent digging through Mail's menus to figure out how to show the raw message.
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- sloby11 6y agoI'm pretty sure that this comment was sarcasm
- yakubin 6y agoUnless it's from a Nigerian prince.
- zaarn 6y agoThat is completely antithetical to my experience as mail server operator and someone who gets a lot of spam. Nearly 100% of spam is plaintext, a small fraction uses badly designed HTML that barely displays in the client.
- tesseract 6y agoThis may come down to whether you consider marketing email from legitimate businesses to be "spam" or if you reserve the term for the more scammy/seedy type of mail.
- zaarn 6y agoI unsubscribe from marketing mails, those are legally required to have an unsubscribe link in them. You should try clicking on that if you don't like marketing mail. If they don't stop you can threaten legal action in both EU and US without issue. If it doesn't have this link, it's spam. If it's trying to get me to buy something I didn't explicitly wishlist on a store, it's spam. If it's unsolicited marketing, it's spam. And even if I were to include all marketing email, including those I am interested in, then plaintext mail would still constitute the majority of spam mails I receive.
- varjag 6y agoAny unsolicited marketing is spam, unsubscribe link or not.
- zaarn 6y agoThat's... what I said. I mentioned the unsubscribe link for solicited marketing mails, where that is in fact relevant. Unsolicited email would be pretty damn illegal in my home country to begin with (and a GDPR violation).
- jeltz 6y agoIt is illegal but very common. Many of those emails with unsubscribe links are unsolicited. They either spam all their former customers no matter if they have opted in or not or they just buy links. Yes, the unsubscribe links work but what they do is in obvious violation if the gdpr and other laws.
- kureikain 6y agoI run an email forwarding service[1] so I deal with spam a lot. Spam usually has bad formating, mixed charset, old/broken layoyt etc. Most of time, spam are odd designs. Example they only have HTML and didn't have the corresponding plain text part. They have large pictures and too little text, they have many "invisible" part so that hide behind element to trick you to click the wrong thing. Even in plain-text, spam tend to include random links, very long text, weird chracter etc A nicely design, or a plain-text emails(only plain text) with nice format all are good signal of non-spam. In other word, consistency is signal of non-spam emails. But sometime marketing emails-which you never explicitly subscribe to, you just register for an account and got marketing emails, can also be consider spam, but from google/hotmail point of view they don't consider these are spam and that's reason they have Promotion tab to put thing in there --- [1] https://hanami.run https://hanami.run