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Re: Blackholing My Email

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Post by jprjr_ »

WorldMaker wrote: post #20
BorisMelnik wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my theory is that if rcs keeps advancing we might see "texting" kind of merge with email at some point. at this point RCS and email are pretty similar on paper.

RCS is incredibly centralized. More than half of the phone carriers decided it was too complicated to run their own RCS servers and so just sub-contract them to a Google subsidiary (Jibe).

To be fair that seems to be the path email is going down. Most businesses don't want run their own email and just use one of two big providers.

Re: Blackholing My Email

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Post by freediddy »

sonofhans wrote: post #30
freediddy wrote: post #12

de_dust... such good times! A perfectly designed map where everyone knew what the chokepoints were and what the best strategies were but the outcomes between equal opponents was never guaranteed. That's what makes a perfect playing field! I recently got my older kid and his friends hooked on CS2 via steam. I'm considering having a "dads vs kids" tourney because we're at that cross section where all the dads have play…

Careful. The crossover from “I’m showing my kid CS2” to “I’m getting easily deleted by my kid in CS2” is pretty fast :)

My nephew who is in his early 20s beat me at Madden so badly that I quit. It wasn't that he just beat me, I couldn't score against him at all, and I consider myself a decent Madden player. I've been playing that game since the times I was changing his diapers and babysitting him. It was so humiliating that I haven't touched the game since.

Re: Blackholing My Email

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Post by jprjr_ »

siruwastaken wrote: post #28

I'm probably showing my age here, but did these email worms largely die out due to spam filtering, or did the email programs just get better protections against viruses that made it more difficult to exploit? The only email "viruses" I have come accross today are actual humans accidentally replying "reply all" to a legitimate email.

The answer is yes, to all of it.

Email providers have better spam filtering, some have strict rules about attaching any kind of executable code to an email (as in - you just can't).

Email clients are always getting updated, stricter about validating content before showing it, etc.

Re: Blackholing My Email

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Post by encom »

nozzlegear wrote: post #14
dmd wrote: post #11

I'm always stunned at how good GMail's spam filtering is, at least for me. I've been using the same email address since 1996 - that's 30 years now - and posting it with absolutely no thought to spam protection all over the place. I get ~1000 spams per day. About 1-2 end up in inbox. Every so often I do go through my spam, and while it's possible I've missed something, I generally find less than 1 false positive a mon…

I've been a Fastmail customer for years and have been pretty happy with their spam filtering too. Anything that does get through either gets a custom rule to send it to the shadow realm, or gets sent to a special "Learn spam" folder that I set up which will train the spam filter on that message.

Fastmail here too, and my email address is older than Gmail, and probably older than a significant portion of HN posters. Fastmails spam filter just works. I get a few false negatives per month, and some months zero. I've set it to /dev/null the most obvious spam, and I can't recall the last false positive. It's happened, but extremely rarely. Google spam filter is not unique or magical.

And I never liked Gmail the client. It's not as godawful as Outlook, nothing even comes close, but it always gets in my way and does things in weird Googly ways. I'll stick with Kmail, thanks.

Re: Blackholing My Email

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Post by encom »

jprjr_ wrote: post #33
siruwastaken wrote: post #28

I'm probably showing my age here, but did these email worms largely die out due to spam filtering, or did the email programs just get better protections against viruses that made it more difficult to exploit? The only email "viruses" I have come accross today are actual humans accidentally replying "reply all" to a legitimate email.

The answer is yes, to all of it. Email providers have better spam filtering, some have strict rules about attaching any kind of executable code to an email (as in - you just can't). Email clients are always getting updated, stricter about validating content before showing it, etc.

And the internet stopped using Outlook Express.

Re: Blackholing My Email

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Post by khiguvikohg »

freediddy wrote: post #32
sonofhans wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Careful. The crossover from “I’m showing my kid CS2” to “I’m getting easily deleted by my kid in CS2” is pretty fast :)

My nephew who is in his early 20s beat me at Madden so badly that I quit. It wasn't that he just beat me, I couldn't score against him at all, and I consider myself a decent Madden player. I've been playing that game since the times I was changing his diapers and babysitting him. It was so humiliating that I haven't touched the game since.

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Re: Blackholing My Email

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Post by khiguvikohg »

siruwastaken wrote: post #28

I'm probably showing my age here, but did these email worms largely die out due to spam filtering, or did the email programs just get better protections against viruses that made it more difficult to exploit? The only email "viruses" I have come accross today are actual humans accidentally replying "reply all" to a legitimate email.

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Re: Blackholing My Email

#38

Post by khiguvikohg »

riverforest wrote: post #3

Email is the one thing everyone complains about and almost nobody actually fixes. Curious how long this lasts before something important falls through.

No one is complaining about the email system itself, but how it is abused, and it being abused is simply a byproduct of how simple and efficient the whole concept is. There’s nothing to fix.

Re: Blackholing My Email

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Post by Levitating »

3form wrote: post #6

To me, the fact that the author of the article is the author of de_dust2 is the real highlight! For those who don't know, it's the most popular map ever in Counter Strike, and I expect so it remains to this day. This is funny, as I always imagined these things to be made by some nameless author of good old Internet, and never bothered to check and look it up. Further less I expected to stumble upon it by said author'…

Likely the most well known map in all of video gaming, considering to how many other games it was ported

Re: Blackholing My Email

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Post by freetanga »

nozzlegear wrote: post #14
dmd wrote: post #11

I'm always stunned at how good GMail's spam filtering is, at least for me. I've been using the same email address since 1996 - that's 30 years now - and posting it with absolutely no thought to spam protection all over the place. I get ~1000 spams per day. About 1-2 end up in inbox. Every so often I do go through my spam, and while it's possible I've missed something, I generally find less than 1 false positive a mon…

I've been a Fastmail customer for years and have been pretty happy with their spam filtering too. Anything that does get through either gets a custom rule to send it to the shadow realm, or gets sent to a special "Learn spam" folder that I set up which will train the spam filter on that message.

Also Fastmail user for many years, with custom domain. I use specific email addresses per service with Bitwarden’s recent feature (by hand before this). My personal address is shared with few people.

I set up specific folders based on aliases. Thanks to GDPR I have found a few companies that have shared / sold my data illegally (the company-assigned address popped up somewhere else) and managed to have them delete my data right away.

I fret losing my domain, and that my recovery addresses are Gmail and Outlook - which could be lost at any time.

I would like to see government issue a lifetime inbox in the same way they issue you a SSN, a passport or driver license so I can have that as last line recovery.

But on the other hand, if we had that politicians would likely enforce mandatory identification across all web services…

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