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Re: Anonymous email users

From	Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Anonymous email users
Date	2024-06-24 14:12 -0400
Message-ID	<mailman.172.1719279576.2909.python-list@python.org> (permalink)
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On 2024-06-24, Barry Scott via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
>> On 23 Jun 2024, at 06:58, Sebastian Wells via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
>> 
>> The spammers won the spam wars, so even if you have someone's real
>> e-mail address, that's no guarantee that you can contact them. [...]
>
> My email address is well known and yes I get spam emails.

I've been puzzled by this for a long time. Many people talk about how
they get so much spam e-mail that there's little chance they'll notice
if I send them an e-mail.

I've been using the same e-mail address for about 20 years. I've use
that e-mail address with probably close to 100 retailers, charities,
open-source projects, media sites, and various other organizations.

I get at most a few spam emails per week [I just checked my spam
folder: 8 in the past 30 days]. And Gmail is very, very close to 100%
accurate at filtering them out.  I can't remember the last time I
actually got a spam message in my inbox.

> A few years ago the spam count was greater than a 1,000 a month.

I'm baffled.  Is Gmail silently rejecting that much junk before it
even gets to the filter that puts stuff into my "spam" folder?

--
Grant

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Anonymous email users <avi.e.gross@gmail.com> - 2024-06-14 18:00 -0400
  Re: Anonymous email users Sebastian Wells <sebastian@here.com.invalid> - 2024-06-23 05:58 +0000
    Re: Anonymous email users Barry Scott <barry@barrys-emacs.org> - 2024-06-24 10:51 +0100
    Re: Anonymous email users Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net> - 2024-06-24 13:17 -0400
    Re: Anonymous email users dn <PythonList@DancesWithMice.info> - 2024-06-25 10:29 +1200
    Re: Anonymous email users Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2024-06-25 08:44 +1000
      Re: Anonymous email users Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2024-06-25 12:59 +0300
        Re: Anonymous email users Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2024-06-26 04:35 +1000
    Re: Anonymous email users Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> - 2024-06-24 14:12 -0400
    Re: Anonymous email users Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2024-06-25 11:49 +1000
    RE: Anonymous email users <avi.e.gross@gmail.com> - 2024-06-25 00:13 -0400
    Re: Anonymous email users Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2024-06-25 12:09 +0300

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