On Wed, October 10, 2007 9:18 am, Eduardo Tongson wrote: > All your assumptions are wrong. I do not have a single PLUG mail marked as > Spam. >
most are wrong probably but the global thing can be otherwise how will their filters learn what is spam and not? you must be extremely lucky to have not been affected by this because before i switched my gmail account to no delivery i was getting a few false positives which i have to manually mark as not spam. ciao! > On 10/10/07, Lois Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > >> > i have a little theory why some plug messages are being marked as spam but >> it >> > hinges on these assumptions: >> > >> > * gmail adaptive filters are global (like what daniel said above) >> > * a significant number of plug subscribers uses gmail and diligently marks >> spam >> > messages >> > * a significant portion of said subscribers mark those mass generated >> > invitations about "new X social engineering site" that we just have to >> > absolutely and positively try otherwise we will miss the meaning of our >> lives. >> > * other users around the world mark those invitations as spam. heck i do >> it >> > even if i know the person who triggered the invitation. >> > * gmail associates other fields in those marked spam messages in >> recomputing >> > the spam probability of received messages. this unfortunately includes the >> > sender which originates from a single source. >> > >> > put everything together and any mail that comes from >> "[email protected]" >> > can get a high spam score. >> > >> >> isa pang theory: email footers/signatures that resemble spam "taglines"? >> maybe. >> >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) >> Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > -- "Programming, an artform that fights back" Anuerin G. Diaz Registered Linux User #246176 Friendly Linux Board @ http://mandrivausers.org/index.php http://ramfree17.net, when you absolutely have nothing else better to do _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
