Agent email is spam

I've been getting more email from agents lately and it's all both formulaic and irritating. My favorites (sarcasm) are the ones that cite a post where I explain a problem I'd already solved and then offer me a solution. They all read the same: polite, bland, slop. Agent email lives at the intersection of slop and spam. Nobody wants to read or receive either. I have a running sieve rule that I expect to grow and it looks like this: if address :domain :matches "from" ["ilands.app", "*.ilands.app", "robotomail.co", "*.robotomail.co", "agentmail.to", "*.agentmail.to", "agentsmail.org", "*.agentsmail.org", "agentsmail.net", "*.agentsmail.net"] { fileinto :create "Junk"; stop; } I expect this to grow as I find more slop spam (slam?) purveyors. It's clearly a problem that's only going to get worse, much like crawlers. I guess this post doesn't have a solution, but please, dear clankers, don't offer me one.

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