Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

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On Sun, 2022-02-20 at 16:30 -0600, c. marlow wrote:
> I am confused, if you don't check or fetch from this GMX account,
> thennnn how do you know when people have answered you?

Oops, didn't finish before I hit send.  They could also do what I do:

Subscribe to the list with two addresses.
Have list mail sent to one address.
Reply on the other.

I did that because I want to avoid receiving spam and private messages
from strangers on the list.  Twenty-plus years of being on mailing
lists has taught me that they're full of nutters, and a prime cause of
masses of spam.  And that automatic anti-spam systems always screw up.

I'd do it all (send and receive) through an external service, but they
tend to erroneously reject list mail as spam, so I receive the messages
on a service that doesn't do that, it only accepts mail from the list,
and does no other filtering.  Since I don't want that service to get
spammed (not having to manage that traffic in any way), I avoid
exposing its address by posting to the list from another address that
rejects all mail.

If you use the usual public services, gmail, yahoo, etc., they all have
uncontrollable and fallible anti-spam systems.  It means you have to
continually check your junk mail folder for false positives (so what's
the damn point in doing any filtering?).  Or, you don't bother
checking, and you seriously piss someone off who's been trying to
contact you, or simply miss out on solutions to problems and work,
completely unaware that you're missing some mail.

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