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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
I made the mistake of opening the spam folder on my oldest email address. There must've been hundreds of messages in there.
I don't even use the damn thing anymore. I just keep it open for access to old messages and in case something legitimate actually comes through. That hasn't happened in several months.
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My oldest email address is the original one provided by my ISP. I use Gmail, and have since it was invitational beta. It polls the ISP address as well as a few others and everything appears in my Gmail Inbox. Gmail is set to have replies made to messages it polled appear to originate from that address.
My old ISP address is now essentially a spam trap. Almost everything sent to me these days is sent to my Gmail account, and Gmail has the best spam filters I've seen, so I no longer
care about spam. It gets detected, labeled as Spam, and does not appear in my Inbox. Perhaps one actual spam message a month appears in my Inbox, and Report Spam and I don't see stuff from that source again. (Meanwhile, Gmail auto-deletes stuff labeled Spam after 30 days, but I check for false positives regularly and delete actual spam when I do. (I do, however, collect 419 spam. Some of those entries are unintentionally hilarious.)
My Gmail mail store is a database, searchable by standard Google mechanisms, and one of my research tools, as it stores info not easily findable elsewhere. There are a couple of decades worth of mail in it (I broke down and pay the $2 a month charge for 100GB of Google storage. I'm up to about 25% usage.)
Everyone has their own workflow and process for dealing with email. The above Works For Me.
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Dennis