Re: Cold emails are not considered spam?

On 5/9/2025 13:10, Mark London wrote:
> Hi - Our site has recently been getting lots of "cold emails". I've 
> read according to a Google search, they aren't considered "spam". And 
> websites provide instructions and templates for people, on how to send 
> cold emails.  Or there are web sites that prove a service, to do it 
> for them.
Oh they most-certainly are spam and SA is pretty good at interdicting 
them too in my experience at least.
>
> Most infuriating, is that cold emails send several follow up emails, 
> if the people receiving the cold emails, don't respond! I've been 
> trying routine add custom filters to block them. Although I keep 
> having to adjust them every week.  I'm wondering if anybody else has 
> this problem.  Thanks. - Mark

Bayes seems to get them most of the time, if you train it well. As more 
and more of this is AI-generated the "catch" rate goes up incidentally, 
as AI is, well, certainly artificial but not very intelligent :-)

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