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by cabaalis 2436 days ago
CAN-SPAM has worked well in that I generally don't get random spam anymore. But, the cold marketing emails. Woooooow, the cold marketing emails. Several of them, Every. Day. It's epidemic in my inbox.
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I don't know how much is CAN-SPAM and how much is that SPAM filtering became so effective that old-fashioned SPAM basically doesn't work any more (if it ever did).

>Several of them, Every. Day.

Lucky you. Between the fact that I'm on PR lists, I attend events all the time, I download various company info for my job, etc. (Plus companies I've ordered stuff from etc.) I probably get closer to 100/day.

Periodically I make a point of systematically opting out of mailings I can't imagine ever caring about. But mostly I rely on Gmail tabs and just skimming my email for anything I actually care about.

Most cold marketing emails I get are spam and in violation of CAN-SPAM. Unfortunately pursuing it isn't worth the time.
Wow. Several daily? Are you able to stay on top of it yourself or do you outsource the task?