Subj : Most emails no longer hum
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Wed Mar 11 2026 07:38 am

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.

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