On 28/07/2019 11:01, Mark Carroll wrote:
On 28 Jul 2019, Bernard Peek wrote:
I've used Gmail for years but I'm happy to use something else. My main
reason for choosing Gmail back then was its spam filtering. What
alternatives can match that today?
I would second the idea of putting gmx.com at least on the "to be
considered" list (and on other lists I've seen some godawful message
formatting from some ProtonMail users; maybe their webclient's default
settings suck?) but do bear in mind that you should expect an inverse
correlation between false negative rate and false positive rate in spam
filtering: If you want to see hardly any spam then you are also going to
be rejecting some valid mail, the very problem that switching from gmail
is trying to avoid in this case! We don't get to have our cake and eat
it.
Gmail retains the last 30 days of spam. I used to check it religiously
but don't any more. I looked today at it today and there were no
false-positives in the 500 or so messages I looked at.
Given that eta...@shrdlu.com is commonly used as a fake address that's
not bad.
I'll look at gmx
Standards violations or similar daft decisions by big players are a
common issue in IT, whether in Internet activity or elsewhere: Indulge
them and work around them or tell them where to go to encourage better
behavior in the community overall? Each of the two camps is typically
well-populated and armed with good arguments. I figure that it is
entirely up to the generous get_iplayer list operator whether they opt
for principles or pragmatism in this case, I consider either defensible.
I've managed large teams on voluntary projects. It's as well to bear in
mind that beggars can't be choosers.
Personally my issue with gmail is mostly that people mailing me from
such addresses better understand that my responses to them are
necessarily limited to what I am happy for Google to archive and harvest
for their own purposes but I would argue that for public mailing list
traffic one ought not have to choose between convenience and privacy:
the latter's not a criterion.
Sorry about that. It's not something I had considered. All of the posts
from this list go through my gmail account although you would need to
read my email headers to discover that.
I'll definitely look into gmx or just set up my own server. I've done it
before.
--
Bernard Peek
b...@shrdlu.com
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