Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic...
by kiwijamo on Friday December 24, 2021 @04:07PM
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I still have a @gmail.com account and every time I check it there's a whole lot of spam sitting in the inbox waiting to be classified as spam. Very strange as my main address (which I've had as my main address for almost 20 years) is on FastMail and hardly gets any spam despite the address being much more exposed e.g. it's found on many public mailing lists and it's been part of more data breaches than I can count. Yet it's Gmail that gets the torrent of spam including many obvious ones ending up in the inbox. YMMV of course but I don't rate Gmail highly compared to FastMail and even Office365.
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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic...
by pyrale on Friday December 24, 2021 @06:55PM
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At this point, I suspect the pattern [email protected] is so common that spammers just blindly target it.
My experience is similar, I receive much less spam on my actual mail than I do on gmail.
Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic...
by kiwijamo on Friday December 24, 2021 @11:52PM
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That is possible, my Gmail is indeed [email protected].