[stronglikedan]

> For me, email is 99% updates/promotions, 0.99% real humans

That sounds like personal email more than the work email discussed in the article. And if that's truly the split of your work email, seems like all you need is some server side inbox filters to manage that.

[makeitdouble]

Work email will be very different from job to job as well. Many orgs have basically declared bankruptcy on email and moved peofessional communication to other channels.

For the last decade my work email has been basically notifications, with sometimes a single or two emails thoughtfully written by a human. And that's probably because anything people expect me to read will be either in Slack/whatever chat app, in a ticket/task, or straight in a calendar invite with an agenda to get up to speed.

Funny thing is emails are now either only relevant for a few miliseconds where I only need to know what triggered it, or ultra important "we'll delete your account in 5 days" type that I absolutely don't want to miss. In a year I haven't got anything in between.

[phantasmish]

My work email is barely better. If it matters it reaches me in Teams (ugh, unfortunately). Email is full of spam, most of it company-internal (no I don’t give a shit about yet another “newsletter” that you probably had an LLM write anyway, because why wouldn’t you, because it’s fake work anyway)

[hammock]

I wonder why spam in personal email is acceptable but spam in work email is not. Why can’t we do both?

[hammock]

Why am I downvoted? Did people think I was suggesting spam in both?

[harvey9]

Spam in personal email is not so much acceptable as unavoidable. I didn't vote either way.

[hammock]

That’s the point I’m making though. Why is it unavoidable in personal but not unavoidable in work?