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i'd be curious to know, of the spam emails received, what percentage were blocked by basic spam filtering? in 2023 email spam seems like mostly a solved proble
by notatoad 3y ago
i'd be curious to know, of the spam emails received, what percentage were blocked by basic spam filtering?
in 2023 email spam seems like mostly a solved problem - i very rarely get any that actually makes it through to my inbox. trying to solve the spam problem by protecting your email address from becoming public might have seemed like a valid strategy 20 years ago, but we have better tools now.
- gspencley 3y agoThe limitation of spam filters is false positives. For most people it's probably not a big deal to have one or two messages land in the spam filter .. then someone follows up and says "Hey did you get that legit email I tried to send you? I haven't heard back." But for certain business accounts, the amount of spam + false positives can get to unmanageable levels, where important emails are flagged as spam and left undiscovered because sifting through the spam folder regularly is as time consuming and annoying as if the spam just went straight to inbox.
- notatoad 3y agookay, but no amount of email obfuscation is going to allow me to disable my spam filter, so this isn't solving the false positive problem.
- gspencley 3y agoMy point is that it's still valuable to try and reduce the overall volume of spam. Spam filters are another angle of attack. Spam is a tough enough problem that it's always worth throwing multiple solutions at it, each good at solving a separate slice of the overall problem.
- pizzafeelsright 3y agoWhat service? I have gmail and O365 and some other web hosting provider. My work email is unknown, probably filtered 5x, plus on O365 so limited to known contacts.