On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Jonathon Kuo wrote:
> Okay, I clicked on 'Reset' and removed my hard-coded 'spam' rules in Mail
> Prefs, and restarted Mail. Daily I get bucketloads of spam, many from the
> same sources. Take one for instance:
> <[email protected]> These guys send me a dozen
> spams a day (not all at once), so much that I had made a rule for them. So
> now, in come these spams, and I diligently click the "Junk" button on each of
> them, but Mail never learns. In come more of these spams, and I'm still
> clicking "Junk" for each one. How many times does it take before Mail
> believes me that these are spams? Why would it take more than once? It
> certainly behaves like it merely moves the email to the Junk folder, but no
> record or tabulation is kept.
Dittos. Even if one supposes that the criteria is set such that nobody gets
banned after only one or two strikes, I never saw the payoff occur even after
dozens of strikes. And one might expect that in the other direction (marking
something Not Junk) just one 'Ham" should take somebody off the list, but it
doesn't do that, either.
When I went back and reviewed what the criteria were supposed to be, I found
nothing concrete. In fact, it appeared that the whole "learning" meme was
little more than a vague marketing promise made at early introduction, and not
really repeated afterward. So I concluded that Mail really doesn't get
"taught" anything and I should stop expecting it.
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