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No, sorry, it's purely anecdotal. And also more applicable to the last few decades, when other email services were still terrible, than nowadays with many adequ
by solardev 3y ago
No, sorry, it's purely anecdotal. And also more applicable to the last few decades, when other email services were still terrible, than nowadays with many adequate options.
I think I have the opposite preference to you: false positives are OK to me if that means less spam gets through. In fact I've seen many of those notifications in my gmail spam and thought to myself, "Huh, you know, maybe I don't need those that badly after all... I'll just let gmail keep it there."
The overwhelming majority of my human contacts use other channels anyway (some chat app, or SMS), not email. I might get like ten real emails from humans in a year, and even then 90% of them are from people already in my contact list (and so bypass spam).
Phone calls are similar these days. Google Fi/Android also applies a similarly strict spam filter to incoming calls, and marks and blocks a lot of them as spam. I check once in a while, but overall I just don't really mind. If someone really needs to reach me they'll find a way... if they don't try, it's a good filter for how important their message really is anyway, lol.
- megous 3y agoI largely communicate with people who contact me for the first time (people who use my FOSS projects). Different needs, I guess.
- solardev 3y agoOh yeah, I can see how that'd be a problem if you have regular public-facing contacts. I really wish Github had a DM feature =/ It feels so weird these days to email someone out of the blue.