[halomru]

>sales cold calls, though... you know people are going to do it. It is their job.

Sales cold calls are illegal in my country and happen to me once every few years. My email address isn't so lucky.

>Sure, junk mail is annoying and most of it gets thrown out.

And more importantly: I can put a simple "no advertisements" sign on my real mailbox and cut down junk to almost zero. I wish I could do that to my virtual inbox.

Email junk is far worse than any real-live equivalent in my culture.

A better metaphor is having my business and private conversations while walking over a Middle-Eastern market where random people try to sell me stuff.

[jacalata]

> I can put a simple "no advertisements" sign on my real mailbox and cut down junk to almost zero.

Fun fact: this isn't possible in the US. I'd never considered how that might influence how Americans think about spam email in general.

[norea-armozel]

It's a weird thing tbh when most of my mail is literally just advertisements for services around my area. Some of it is interesting but most don't apply to me (ex. Had several mailers for private schooling since there's a couple schools like that in the neighborhood) so I have to wonder how successful is junk mail like that in producing a profitable result. I have to imagine the cost would have to be very low to justify the constant stream of junk mail I receive.