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Re:Americans are drowning in spam by Forricide on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:24AM (#31071052)
> email

Aside from using Gmail, which has quite good spam filtering, my solution to email spam is siloing: using a separate email account for different categories of account sign-ups, etc. I just checked my 'good' email's spam folder, and there's nothing there - I get maybe one spam email every few months. (In order to reduce friction, I have autoforwarding from other emails, which doesn't resend spam with gmail - but there are other solutions which would presumably work for any email provider).

The only downside is, with paid email accounts, this could be monetarily problematic - which I don't really see a solution for, unfortunately. But, it's definitely way easier to filter email spam than physical/phone spam.

Re:Americans are drowning in spam by beckingz on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:09AM (#31071725)
Fastmail allows you to crate unlimited email aliases that forward to your main domain.

I'm a happy customer.

Re:Americans are drowning in spam by site-packages1 on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:48AM (#31072317)
Fastmail is amazing. I like it so much I started paying for the three years in advance plan.
Re:Americans are drowning in spam by Fwirt on Monday April 18, 2022 @01:51PM (#31074096)
There are also free services that do this, like ImprovMX.
Re:Americans are drowning in spam by noasaservice on Monday April 18, 2022 @10:36AM (#31071215)
Even with siloing and owning your own domain...

It doesnt stop the possibility that a legitimate other person with your contact details does the "share address book" with some shitty app. Its not you who has to fail - its ANYBODY in your contact network.

Re:Americans are drowning in spam by ghaff on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:17AM (#31071847)
I used to use separate emails for orders, newsletters, etc. But what I found was that the separate email effectively became a dev/null. Gmail does a good enough job of filtering and tagging that I get a mostly clean primary inbox without effectively trashing everything else that I might want to look at once in a while, e.g. reservation confirmations.