Friendly reminder: check your spam folder at least once a week. Spam is a wicked problem and while algorithmic classification has gotten fairly good, it will necessarily miss stuff. Important stuff. I find at least one *really* significant email per week in my spam folder.
Interesting saga. A journalist emails me from his work email in Europe—legit TV station—and it *always* ends up in my spam folder. I tell him that so he starts emailing me from his gmail account. That gets a phishing warning—for an email with no links. What's the theory? His IP?
Also, today in my Gmail spam folder: a legit class action settlement email against Apple. So what if there was a lawsuit against Google/Gmail and it went into spam? Not claiming anything intentional happening; spam *is* a wicked problem. But it's so consequential yet ignored.
To add to this thread, today in my spam folder: an email from the Communication Director of WHO (she was writing to me directly and we correspond so not first time) and three emails from a mailing list that I regularly interact with. It's a version of this everyday. Check spam.
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