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I run email servers and one of the pulses I've been keeping an eye on over the last 2 and a half years is recruiter mail, both real and spam. I did notice early
by dpedu 4y ago
I run email servers and one of the pulses I've been keeping an eye on over the last 2 and a half years is recruiter mail, both real and spam. I did notice early to mid 2020 the volume of this type of mail was reduced to almost nothing. But it seemed to recover to normal by the end of the year and has stayed just about that way ever since.
This is subjective - I'm basing this off of how much mail I remember seeing. I haven't ran numbers or anything like that.
- UweSchmidt 4y agoIn what capacity do you "run email servers"? Do you "keep an eye" on other people's email?
- marktangotango 4y agoAnalyzing frequency of email addresses would be enough for what GP posted here. Questionable, but not as egregious as reading peoples email. But hey, gmail has done it for years so.... meh.
- undoware 4y agoThis sounds like pretty much every network admin gig I've ever had, but I'm old. My first job in 2001 involved running around trying to back up everyone's Outlook files and yeah, you see a lot of email. The tone of this comment suggests a young'un who has never been face to face with a /var/spool/mail that is mounted over NFS because your supervisor worked at BAE in 1992 and it was SOP there for reasons that were never, ever, ever relevant in your shop of 14, but NFS didn't come up this morning so you're trying to figure out where the hell everyone's email went And yes this is vaguebooking about my supervisor from 2001 (you know who you are)
- SantalBlush 4y agoNow this is interesting information. It's too bad we can't get a time series chart of recruiter email frequency over the past few years, because that would be nice to look at. Still, your anecdote here is much more interesting than all of the uninformed hot takes on this thread. Thanks for sharing, seriously.