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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
