Tell HN: A friendly reminder to check your (Gmail) spam folder

  • I just checked.

    There's nothing important. There are a few legal commercial emails (which I marked as not-spam and then unsubscribed). Other than that, it's all junk.

    It's clear that GMail is dropping vast amounts of obvious spam on the floor without even putting it in the spam folder. My last-30-days spam used to be in the thousands. Now it was less than two dozen.

  • I find the Inbox vs Spam folder distinction to be almost unusable nowadays, so yes I check the spam folder from time to time and regularly rescue non-spam.