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You are completely wrong, flat out. Your argument is basically that "spam matters". This is false. I am a gmail user. I get thousands of spam messages a month
by geuis 13y ago
You are completely wrong, flat out.
Your argument is basically that "spam matters". This is false.
I am a gmail user. I get thousands of spam messages a month. In the course of a year, the number of those messages that make it to my inbox are less than 10. Most people these days use mail providers that offer excellent filtering. People in companies most certainly do. If you are one of the minority that host their own email, filtering options are readily available.
There is no benefit to masking your email. You just make it harder for real people to contact you.
Case in point: Send me an email if anyone wants to say hi, geuis.teses@gmail.com.
This service has a lot of benefit if I want to try finding someone under a type of description. Maybe I need a developer, or someone wants to contact me but didn't get my email at a conference we met at.
If someone contacts me that I don't want to converse with, it's just email. Delete and ignore, or mark as spam. Simple.
Hope this clears up your misconceptions.
- david_shaw 13y ago> You are completely wrong, flat out. Your argument is basically that "spam matters". This is false. You're right that contemporary email providers like GMail do a great job of filtering spam emails, but that doesn't change the fact that sending commercial emails to harvested addresses is illegal, per the CAN-SPAM Act. The act clearly states that the destination address "cannot be sent to a harvested email address." More information (albeit paraphrased) is available here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address_harvesting#Legality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address_harvesting#Legal... or you can read the full text of the act itself here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-108publ187/pdf/PLAW-108publ187.pdf http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-108publ187/pdf/PLAW-108pub... Just because spam filters work very well does not mean that creating a web application that enables illegal activity is a good idea. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM#Sending_behavior_compliance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM#Sending_behavior_comp...
- prawn 13y agoI'm a Gmail user who also gets thousands of spam messages a month. The number that get to my inbox, despite attempting to train it with classification of spam as such, would be 20+ per day. Despite training as "not spam", I end up with 10+ legitimate messages a month ending up in my spam folder. Unsubscribing, shaming, reporting to the ACMA - none of these actions seem to have any noticeable effect. Spam matters to me.
- geuis 13y agoIt's interesting to know. I haven't had that experience myself.