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.

▲ gcanyon 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> 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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phillc73 3 days ago | parent [-]

French is not that weird.

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gcanyon 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I didn't say French was weird; I said the messages are weird, and they happen to be in French.

I don't speak French, and using auto-translate on a few, they seem to be innocuous, context-free replies to message chains I was never in. I think the goal is just to get me to respond in some way to start the chain, like those spam text messages that just say something like "Great, Ted, Wednesday works." and if you respond, they're off to the races working to establish a relationship with you they can cash in on.

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bluGill 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you don't speak French it is weird. If you do it should be normal but if not it is weird.

	▲	kigiri 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I speak french and I think it's super wierd
	▲	SenHeng 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I started getting French spam when a couple of French colleagues joined us. That was weird. My guess is one of them is letting some service read his emails but it’s really just a front for harvesting and selling addresses.

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▲ neya 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	LoganDark 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> A pretty decent spam filter would be (From gmail.com && not a known sender) -> Spam. iCloud Mail keeps doing this to me and it's so annoying. They don't give me notifications and I have to keep remembering to check my Junk folder. This happens for every new sender without fail.

▲ pona-a 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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.