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Spam ruined email. It's really as simple as that.

• redeeman 2mo ago
  spam filters are effective at dealing with that
  • brikym 2mo ago
    It works both ways right? If you self-host you are seen as the spam.
  • nh2 2mo ago
    Not in my experience. My self-hosted email filters too little spam, while GMail etc filter too much (e.g. important company correspondence leading to orders almost being lost because they landed in our GMail spam).
    • nik282000 2mo ago
      Does GMail silently filter spam now? I get maybe 5 new messages in my spam folder per month for the past couple of years and I'm not sure if Google is just dropping the most blatant spam or if my primary address is somehow not on any lists.
    • Godsend69 2mo ago
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• _joel 2mo ago
  I hardly ever see any spam nowadays, happy fastmail user.
• gglitch 2mo ago
  Nothing will ever ruin email. A private email server, or a federation of mutually-whitelisting ones, is the ultimate social media, and not at all a bad personal information management system too. Edit: typo