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That's why you have one mail for clueless and one for those that do have a clue. Been doing thish for 25? years :-)
Are you using the same address for those that have a clue since 25 years, or you changed it? (I was probably using my Yahoo! address 25 years ago.)
All my emails that come from domains I have not whitelisted get thrown in the trash. Works pretty well. Same deal with my phone. Any private or unknown number gets the mail box which I never check and SMS trashed.
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I'm on several mailing lists from US companies that use Cloudflare country filters or similar technologies to block non-US traffic to their sites. So since moving out of the US I have no way of unsubscribing and no way of contacting them, so they all get reported as spam. Keep this in mind if you run a list and are ever tempted to mass block traffic from your site.
Interesting! We don’t do any of that, but that’s also something I’ve never thought about. Can’t you email them?
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Wiktionary ‘defines’ spam as ‘unsolicited and unwanted’. Elsewhere, Wikipedia describes spam as ‘unsolicited or unwanted’. And vs. Or. Of course spam’s definition should use ‘and’. When you sign up for a newsletter, and later decide you don’t want it, to call it ‘spam’ is merely metaphorical. [1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spam [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam
Nah. You forgot to quote the key word from those definitions: email. Not "newsletters subscriptions", not "promises to receive interesting emails", not "agreements to get sent x mails per week". Spam is unsolicited and/or unwanted email, period. It does not matter whether you were tricked into subscribing to some newsletter or whether you checked a "receive interesting emails from us" box while paying for something.…