I assume there are people who read these things, otherwise companies wouldn’t send me so many of them. I seem to get daily spam from literally any company I’ve ever interacted with in any way, and they are long boys full of text and pictures that Thunderbird helpfully hides from me but I presume are full of jagged brightly coloured stars saying “DEAL DEAL DEAL” or whatever.

Mostly I click delete on these emails faster than the email client can even load them, but every so often I peruse a few sentences of the trade specific items that give a headline that promises actually interesting information… but its always just more marketing guff disguised as a news story.

It’s obviously making someone money to spam the world constantly, so I assume someone is reading these things and acting on them.

  1. Who are you?
  2. Why are you interacting with the spam and making it viable for companies to keep sending it?
  3. What do you do that you have so much free time you can allocate some of it to consuming it?
  • @[email protected]English
    -1•1 year ago

    Gmail filters most of them for my personal email ProofPoint filters most of them for my work email. Any legit ones I get I tend to quickly hit the unsubscribe link for.

    If you are getting an overwhelming amount of them in your inbox then you have poor SPAM filtering in place or subscribed to a lot of legitimate lists.

    Since you mentioned Thunderbird, I assume you are on a very cheap ISP or self host mail system with poor filtering.