On 09/13/2016 10:47 AM, Sean Lynch wrote: > Having used both Gmail and SpamAssassin for filtering mail to this > address, which I've had since 1996, I've found SpamAssassin to be vastly > superior in terms of false positives. Gmail doesn't seem to be that much > better in terms of false negatives even. Pretty disappointing. > > I used to have a filter that prevented Gmail from marking cpunks mail as > spam, but I have intentionally avoided fixing that since the list > address changed in hopes of training it not to suck so bad. So far I > don't seem to have had much luck. > > One thing I did notice is that by default when you block a sender on > Gmail it sends their messages to the spam folder instead of deleting > them, which could mean its training the spam filter on them as well. If > a lot of people do that, it could cause the spam filter to think other > cpunks messages are also spam instead of just, say, Cypher Piggie's.
Or you could set the filter to mark all from "Cypher Piggie" as spam instead. At least I think this is possible. Currently all I use Gmail for is newsletters. Rr > > The solution for me is going to be to stop using Gmail once I find the > time to set up my scandalous basement server. The easier solution is > just to set up a filter with "never mark as spam" as someone else > suggested whom I would credit by name were I not typing this on my phone > in the bathroom. > > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 20:13 Razer <ray...@riseup.net > <mailto:ray...@riseup.net>> wrote: > > > > On 09/12/2016 08:00 PM, juan wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:40:00 -0700 > > Razer <ray...@riseup.net <mailto:ray...@riseup.net>> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On 09/12/2016 01:36 PM, juan wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> It is marking something like 50% of the list's posts as > >>> spam and so forcing me to log into their shitty web interface. It is > >>> really amazing that the masters of the universe can't get a > >>> fucking spam filter working. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> Whah! Whah! > >> > >> Make a filter so that anything from the list never gets marked as > >> junk. > > > > > > Yeah. I think that 'feature' didn't exist a while back, but Zen > > just told me about it. > > > > > >> Then google will know the list mail is VERY important to you. > > > > ^-^ > > > > > > Here's another way in which google is amazing. If I try to log > > with JS disabled, their shitty 'security' system will be > > triggered. They can't even put a note explaining that they > > want you to turn JS on. > > > > > > You can still use the old html type page ("If you have a slow > connection") I don't think it requires Jscript to function correctly at > the client but I'm sure the page is loaded with it anyway so the server > can note which ads your mouse.hover-s over etc. >