On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Andy Bradford <amb-fos...@bradfords.org> wrote:
> Thus said Stephan Beal on Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:55:29 +0200: > > > Or maybe it's just me! > > I disagree, I don't think it's you at all. Filtering problems are always > due to faulty design or bad heuristics. If I filter email (or gmail in > this case) that happens to be legitimate email, regardless of how > similar that message might appear to be spam, that is the fault of my > misguided filtering system, not the sender. > > Andy > p.s. can you tell that I'm fed up with all the false positives with > which free services like gmail seem to be plagued? :-) > After the report of mails mails landing in the spam folder i was curious, so here's a counterpoint... i just checked the most recent 200 spams in my gmail spam folder (that's _just_ the spam from the past 24 hours - i get just over 200 per day), and didn't find a single false positive. There are currently 6139 spams in that folder (those older than 30 days are automatically deleted) and i'm confident that only some diminishingly small percentage of them (under 1%) are not spam (unfortunate casualties of spam war). The main reason i use gmail is because it makes my email usable again - without its excellent spam filters my email would long since be useless. Maybe what happened... i once accidentally told gmail that a single G+ post notification was spam, and it started moving all G+ mails to spam for a few days before i noticed. i had to go back and mark them as not spam, and then it stopped. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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