I don't let my spam filter automatically file my spam... I visually scan the subjects and senders and depend on my peripheral vision to notice spam markers... if something is suspected spam but *isn't* I notice pretty close to real-time which means that there isn't a lot of negative reinforcement for false-positives. I also try to be thoughtful about what I mark as spam... I don't for example, call things I simply am not interested in as spam. Before I do a "delete spam" or "move marked to spam folder" I scan again, just on principle... I *very* rarely catch anything in that scan but you know "belt and suspenders"....
I try to limit who I "subscribe" to and then whack-a-mole the allies that seem to spill over. ActBlue and/or ButtigeigForPrez and/or BernieIsSoCoolItHurts seem to have gleefully given my e-mail address to another half-dozen or so other campaigns (DitchMitch, MakeGeorgiaBlue, OMGtheRedStatesAreComing, etc.) who then flooded me. For a while they were a hydra it seemed... and I WAS tempted to overtrain my spam filter and send it direct to a folder or trash but got through it without doing that. Finally, after November I started unsubscribing from the campaigns I knew I'd opted into (even if by sly accident) and included an admonition that if THEY were the source of all the side-spam, they should rethink, because it ended up *inhibiting* my support for their cause(s)... though I am not sure that was very significant. On 1/28/21 9:48 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > It's a bit funny. I can't remember who they are. But there are some rare > posters whose posts go into GMail spam. It's as if GMail has a similar > feature to Spamassassin's *ham* learner. Like the lurker who posts rarely is > drowned out as spam because I've allowed the frequent posters to out-ham > them. If that's the case, maybe Roger's filter is inverted and has noticed he > simply doesn't like *repetitive* stuff. So where mine filters out the rare > posters, his filters out the blowhards. > > Or, maybe it's because Google has robots who read our emails and the posts > they let through are actually a kind of marketing *upsell* technique. "Oh, I > see you've failed to mark blatherings from Glen as spam. That means I'll > present you with ads for blatherings from The Epoch Times." > > I'm thinking about switching to Mailo or Zoho for trash email addresses like > my GMail ones. I don't think they read them but who knows? > > On 1/27/21 6:14 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> Roger is just saying we are boring and that he ignores our posts. gmail >> follows his preferences. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ??? >> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 5:20 PM >> To: FriAM <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Message to the non-posting 95% >> >> The question I have is whether the similarity is mostly in the payload or >> mostly in the metadata. I welcome clues from any spam-gurus. I also think it >> depends on the extent to which your filter is crowdsourced, as well. It >> strikes me that GMail (and such) users have an economy of scale in >> recognizing spam that offline bayes filterers don't have. >> >> It would be a fun, but maybe cruel prank to play on someone to get all your >> friends to mark all emails from some poor shlub as spam so that Google users >> worldwide began sending their emails to spam. >> >> On 1/27/21 5:07 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: >>> This whole thread went into my gmail spam folder. >>> >>> >>> Why is this message in spam? >>> >>> It is similar to messages that were identified as spam in the past. > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
