It's never "some" spam. On my own mail domain, I get slightly more spam than wanted mail after spam filtering. If I didn't filter it would be tens or hundreds of spam items to actual mail.
The notifications question: well, in some ways people have moved to IM because it offers lower latency than email, generally better antispam, and usable notifications. Of course this is because all the IM solutions are centralized and can ban abusers more effectively.
I've only ever encountered one truly "militant" person against spam, and he refuses to accept mail from gmail because of NSA surveillance. Everyone else wants to avoid rejecting legitimate mail as much as possible while keeping email usable at all.
Lack of feasible antispam mechanisms is one of the things responsible for the decline of USENET.
It's never "some" spam. On my own mail domain, I get slightly more spam than wanted mail after spam filtering. If I didn't filter it would be tens or hundreds of spam items to actual mail.
The notifications question: well, in some ways people have moved to IM because it offers lower latency than email, generally better antispam, and usable notifications. Of course this is because all the IM solutions are centralized and can ban abusers more effectively.
I've only ever encountered one truly "militant" person against spam, and he refuses to accept mail from gmail because of NSA surveillance. Everyone else wants to avoid rejecting legitimate mail as much as possible while keeping email usable at all.
Lack of feasible antispam mechanisms is one of the things responsible for the decline of USENET.