Timeline for What is the difference between "trash" and "junk"?
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| Oct 30, 2020 at 13:36 | comment | added | rajah9 | @BoldBen The behavior you're describing may be unique to your email provider. I was trying to provide a distinction that the OP could understand regardless of his provider. | |
| Oct 30, 2020 at 5:44 | comment | added | BoldBen | @rajah9 Mail in the Junk folder is usually transferred to the Trash folder after it's been in Junk for a period of time. This gives the user time to find important emails which have been classified as Junk. | |
| Oct 29, 2020 at 14:31 | vote | accept | Filippo Giovagnini | ||
| Oct 29, 2020 at 13:58 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | When I was a kid in London, we had what were called "junk shops" (not by their owners) usually located in low-income areas, and selling, cheaply, old furniture and other second-hand objects of low value. There was a somewhat vague distinction between these and the more up-market "antique shops" in richer areas. Sometimes articles such as paintings would find their way from the first type of shop to the second. | |
| Oct 29, 2020 at 13:05 | comment | added | rajah9 | Junk mail usually (but not invariably) ends up in the trash. But normal email (say a confirmation of a business meeting) might go in the trash as well. In no longer needs to be in your inbox. | |
| Oct 29, 2020 at 11:48 | history | answered | Kate Bunting | CC BY-SA 4.0 |