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Are people really inconvenienced by email spam anymore? My email is posted publicly all over the internet, it's been used to make hundreds of accounts for vario
by modeless 4y ago
Are people really inconvenienced by email spam anymore? My email is posted publicly all over the internet, it's been used to make hundreds of accounts for various other companies, it's been in innumerable data breaches, and I haven't changed addresses since GMail launched in 2004. In a bad week I might get two spam messages in my inbox. Each one is dealt with in probably around three seconds. On average I get less, probably around one per month.
I really enjoy that the spam filter catches borderline messages like promotional newsletters from companies I do business with that I didn't intend to sign up for. And I can count on one hand the number of times since 2004 that an email that actually mattered was sent to my spam folder by mistake.
Every form of communication I use has spam and most are much worse than email. I get SMS spam, phone call spam, snail mail spam, WhatsApp spam, phone notification spam. In most cases the spam is harder to deal with and a larger percentage of the total. Phone call spam and snail mail spam in particular are way above 50% for me. Even after doing all the marketing opt-outs I can find.
- powerhour 4y ago> And I can count on one hand the number of times since 2004 that an email that actually mattered was sent to my spam folder by mistake. How often do you check? I see a few false positives a week.
- modeless 4y agoNot often, but when I do check I don't find any so I don't see a need to check more often. And I don't later discover that I missed anything either.
- nullc 4y ago> Are people really inconvenienced by email spam anymore? Now we get inconvenienced by spam in the form of overactive spam filters that take critically important messages from people we've been communicating with for years and files them as spam.