Why Doesn’t Blocking Email Senders Work?

⚛️ Most email programs can block email from a specific address. Unfortunately, blocking email from a sender is ineffective when it comes to spam.

Blocking is futile
Trying to stop spam by blocking the sender is futile because spammers now keep changing who the email appears to be from. The better approach is to simply mark spam as spam when it appears in your inbox. If it’s showing up in your spam folder the system is already working properly.

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Chapters
0:00 Why Doesn’t Blocking Email Senders Work
0:50 Blocking versus the spam folder
1:55 Misleading email addresses
4:25 Ever-changing email addresses
5:30 Showing up in the spam folder is the right thing
6:07 Is blocking good for anything?

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