Florida Sold My Email Address and ESPN Spammed Me

Note the Email Addresses

It isn’t so much that I hate spam. Spam puts food on the table and some people don’t want to stop doing what is easy for them. My reality is that Google Mail does a near perfect job of keeping spam away from my inbox. That was, until big government and a trusted sports news agency decided I like Bass Fishing.

I can’t really blame Google Mail, who also thinks the State of Florida and ESPN would abide by the CAN-SPAM Act and not send people unsolicited email. After all, why would those organizations take the risk of a $10,000 penalty per instance if the FTC found out about it?

Google Priority Inbox

Google launched Priority Inbox today and I am incredibly excited to see how this can help me with piles of email: 

Priority Inbox uses information such as keywords, the people you e-mail the most and your e-mail habits to select the most pressing e-mails in your inbox. Those e-mails are brought to the top of your Gmail and marked as important so you deal with them first.

Priority Inbox is also an adaptive algorithm. Marking items as important or unimportant teaches the system what types of messages you deem the most urgent. You can also use Gmail’s filters to automatically mark certain messages as important (for example, from your boss or your spouse). – Mashable

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