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On 12 Feb 2021 at 18:47:59 GMT, "Fred" wrote:



"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 12/02/2021 11:21, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:29:49 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 12/02/2021 08:50, Tim Lamb wrote:
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A brief education on email transport.

Start with it being inherently unreliable

Actually it isn't.

Its the anti-spam that has made it so

gmail's anti spam is surprisingly reliable.

Never had it claim any email was spam when it wasn't

I prefer making the deicsion on my own machine, not having someone else
deciding for me what is and what is not spam.

I find it more convenient to have the system
do it when its as reliable as the gmail one is.

I have unfiltered mail delivered to me from my hosting service, I
simply reject anything not specifically to me (I do include stuff that
*might* be for me by allowing To: cgreen, To: cris, etc.) and then I
just filter it myself, by looking at it.

Much more convenient to have gmail do it completely
automatically and very reliably indeed.

I do get some junk but probably only 10% of the fairly large amount of
mail I handle so it's just not an issue. An efficient, text mode,
mail program helps, huge complicated graphical mails don't waste time
getting displayed, if I open it I see the text content but that's all.

I much prefer to see stuff properly organised, particularly with bills etc.

I can decide to see the pictures if I want but that's pretty
rare unless a friend has actually sent me some pictures.

I get lots, particularly with offers of books from amazon,
quite a few of which I choose to buy or see if I can torrent.

All I have to do to get rid of an unwanted mail is hit 'd'
and it's gone, so deleting junk is pretty instantaneous.

I find it much more convenient to have that done
completely automatically and very reliably indeed.