Ask HN: Why is spam email still a thing?

Re:Ask HN: Why is spam email still a thing? by asdff on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:37PM (#29970052)

To get this approach to work you need to mass email to get over the low hit rate. The next question that follows, is why don't providers crack down on these scammers who need to send mass emails for their numbers to even pencil out? I'm struck this all hasn't happened 25 years ago at this point.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is spam email still a thing? by aeternum on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:47PM (#29970917)

Because newsletters, special interest groups, internet forums, product updates also a valid uses of mass email.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is spam email still a thing? by asdff on Monday January 17, 2022 @04:37PM (#29971957)

If you can filter that from spam you can also filter these users from those that abuse mass email.

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