Brutkey

John Gruber
@gruber@mastodon.social

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?

Simon Harper
@simonharper@mastodon.social

@gruber@mastodon.social 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.