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Written by John Gruber on 2025-01-06 at 21:51

Because of my recent sale of DF-branded t-shirts, I've been perusing my spam folder every day over the last few weeks, to look for any incorrectly-flagged support messages from customers.

It's really surprising to me how outright spam — not like unwanted marketing messages, but totally garbage spam spam — is seemingly still sent via manual labor. It dropped off precipitously right before Christmas, stayed very low, and now has picked up again today.

Glad they get vacation time, I guess?

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Written by Killa Koala on 2025-01-06 at 21:56

@gruber Best evidence how over-hyped AI is.

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Written by Brian Stucki on 2025-01-06 at 22:14

@gruber the most impressive thing I’ve seen from crypto was the way it ended all ED spam.

Now it’s all crypto spam.

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Written by Simon Harper on 2025-01-06 at 22:23

@gruber what’s more irritating is Apple seem to let all this plainly obvious spam even arrive in your Mail app. There was a time when marking an email spam, Mail learnt how to push it directly to the trash.

Constant blocking and moving spam to trash seems to make no difference.

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Written by Rui Paulo on 2025-01-06 at 23:20

@gruber or they were busy during Xmas trying to bypass the spam filters

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Written by Tony West on 2025-01-06 at 23:54

@gruber i was the other way. Mega jump in spam (really stupid “you’d be a moron to fall for this!” spam) between Christmas and New Year, now it’s dropping away.

(Edit; fixed a typo)

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