[insane_dreamer]

yeah; just that we'll get 5x of these now that it's even easier to generate more "real-human-sounding" ones.

IMO, the best way to deal with these, if using gMail, is not marking them as spam. Instead, I drag them into the Promotions tab, answer "yes" to classify all emails from the subject as such, and that's it. Promotions == Trash.

I don't open/read such emails (I scan the first few words shown in the Inbox line, then dispense), so good luck trying to cold contact me for legitimate purposes.

[chrismorgan]

Why not mark them as spam?

[insane_dreamer]

because I haven't found the spam filter to be bullet proof, whereas I have found the filtering into Promotions (aka my spam folder) to work flawlessly

It's also slightly easier to drag and drop them into Promotions than mark them as spam.

I could of course do both but that's just more work

[muzani]

Gmail product managers are scratching their heads reading this.