Re: Anonymous email users

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. [...]

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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