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Re:Paul Graham provides answer to spam emails (2002) by corobo on Friday May 03, 2019 @07:10AM (#19817286)
I prefer to filter on the word "hurry", among other things. That seems to catch all the mail lists I don't want to hear from while keeping those I do available. I don't hurry.

I only filter them into a pre-spam folder and batch spamflag later, that way I don't miss anything hit by a false positive (e.g. a Signal v. Noise digest had the phrase "Why the hurry?" at one point)

Using this method I don't think I had a single black friday email hit my inbox last year :)

Oh and of course "Greeting(s?) of the day" has never been a legitimate email. You can safely auto-spam that phrase.

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