BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: Most emails no longer hum De: Rob Mccart Data: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:38:57 -0500 ----------------------------------------------------------- RM>> We tend to think about automated eMails as being a bad thing >> but a lot of them are just part of how many businesses interact >> with us one-way. MP>I have been on an automated email list, for weather related things, since >c1990. I was on one for earthquake alerts, too, from c1990 until it petered >out sometime after 2016. They are/were 100% automated. MP>I think people currently relate "automated" or "computer generated" to "AI >generated," which is quite likely but not nearly always the case. I'd imagine a lot of those types of messages have evolved to be handled by AI these days. Most of those are fairly simple information so there's not a lot of chance for AI errors. RM>> Let's just say that if those reminders are not counted then I am >> definitely not getting my share of non-human eMails.. B) MP>I think I am. Maybe humans are generating some of it. I have my spam >settings cranked up so it puts most of it in a spam fold, which normally >has as many (or more) unreads as my inbox does. Some of it does slip by, >though, and it does appear to be (likely) computer generated political BS or >advertising. In the past I remember getting 5 or 6 junk emails a day but I think the services I now use are good at blocking most of them. I really only get junk mail regularly from 2 places, and one of those was generated by online greeting cards my sister sends me and the other is just sending me offers to upgrade a cloud service I am using so I can forgive those ones. And I forgot to mention that those almost always end up in my Spam folder so other spam blocking is done before it even gets close to me since it's just those 2 getting even that far. --- * SLMR Rob * Fighting for Peace is like F**king for virginity * Origin: Capitol City Online (1:2320/107) ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]