And, indeed, Gmail has produced one of the most effective email filters in the world.
Since it’s impossible to tackle spam at the source, the best we can hope for is effective filters. You can look up the CAN-SPAM laws to see the applicable legal situation, and then sigh heavily at how impossible a situation our society has found itself in. Only the largest and most prominent scammers are ever caught, and that’s largely because of the wire fraud and financial crimes, not the email spam itself. Some countries have stricter regulations against it than others, but when most of your spam is being routed through sub-Saharan Africa, good luck tracking and prosecuting anyone. Spam is technically legal, in a sort of gray area largely due to how impossible it is to enforce. You can’t go outside without being exposed to the breeze, and you can’t use email without being exposed to spam, right? Some forums also are regularly ending up in spam.Email spam is something that should be taken seriously, even if we all kind of think of it like a part of nature. I interact with people at Yandex and their emails often end up in spam, no idea why.
I also get some false positives flagged as spam so I started keeping my spam folder clean, so I can inspect what spam I receive and whether it's spam or just a service Google doesn't like. Somehow they evaded Google for a long time.įor a period they were pretty successful with Google Drive / Google Calendar invitations containing spam, but Google blocked them - then I got a string of emails.Īfter a bit of flagging I stopped seeing them. I get plenty of Russian spam because I visited Russia and connected to the free wifi of the airport.Īpparently the list of people connecting to wifi (or someone who they're reselling their data to) is easily hackable. I'm thinking just bugs sneaking in the codebase over a long period of time. Generally it seems like a few more things can get through, compared to 10+ years ago. I had an empty mail saying Good Morning in the subject today.
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