Subj : Most emails no longer hum
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Mon Mar 09 2026 09:07 am

> RM>> Those numbers are probably a little misleading if you don't stop to
>   >> think about it.. All my (your?) online billing notices/reminders from
>   >> banks, credit cards, electricity and other bills are generated by
>   >> machine.

> MP>I was wondering about that also, if those emails were included as
>   >"non-human."

> I would expect so. I get quite a few of those messages and they
> would seem to fit the profile of being generated by automated
> systems since you can't reply to them.

> 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.

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.

I think people currently relate "automated" or "computer generated" to "AI
generated," which is quite likely but not nearly always the case.

> Let's just say that if those reminders are not counted then I am
> definitely not getting my share of non-human eMails..   B)

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.

Mike

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