I have several email addresses, some were for business, some for family, some for shopping, some for different countries. Instead of changing them, I go through the block function in gmail and other similar functions with other email providers, and add all the words, and addresses etc I don’t want to see. I do this once every 6 months or when I get too much spam.
When I initially contact someone like Walmart etc I tell them right up front, “Don’t send me ads because, I will have to block you. Then when you send a legitimate invoice I won’t get that either.” So far it seems to be working. When I look at my trash file (for blocked email) there is about a 30 to 1 ratio of emails I don’t want to see to emails I do. And as I add more words to block the ratio increases.
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