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pjungwir • today at 4:25 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Same with my open source projects and blog posts. I just woke up this morning to two spam messages:

  > Hi Paul, I saw you run Claude Code on manpj,
  > which is exactly who I built Tokenade for.
and

  > Hi Paul, I read your Claude Code setup post,
  > . . . That's exactly why I built Grafizum.
Gmail doesn't seem able to recognize that these are spam (or the incessant business loan offers). But I keep flagging them. I hope it hurts their delivery rates.

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gcanyon • today at 4:36 PM

> Gmail doesn't seem able to recognize that these are spam

For me it's these weird messages in French -- I've been getting them for years, and Google seems unable to recognize them as spam.

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neya • today at 6:17 PM

This is the correct course of action. Hurt their delivery rates. You can also tag the founders on email and publicly tell them to stop doing this crap. That hurts them too. I get it, everyone needs to cold email to go from 0. But, I somehow doubt that cold emailing folks like this is going to get you long term, loyal customers.

SoftTalker • today at 4:52 PM

They don't recognize the persistent Norton renewal notices I get as spam either. That's been going on for years.

I've just concluded that Google views every message from gmail.com to be an advertisement for their service.

A pretty decent spam filter would be (From gmail.com && not a known sender) -> Spam.

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pona-a • today at 6:43 PM

I used to get up to two of these a day on my GitHub mailbox, but thank Christ it's finally stopped. I'm hoping same goes for HN, though being literally owned by a VC fund, it might get a lot worse before it gets better.