On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 3:55 PM Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-06-23 at 13:38 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > > I use my google account for lists. > > I use a Yahoo one for that. Since most of the spam I used to receive > came via them, I thought I'd return the favour. And their unavoidable > anti-spam features seem less crap than Google's. > > > Google's SPAM filters are effective, so much so that when the small > > local ISP my mother used was bought by a larger company that used a > > Google SPAM filtering service I had to regularly check the spam > > collection to retrieve legit messages. > > And therein lay my big hate about anti-spam software, the false > positives. Quite apart from having to double-check on it negates the > value of using it, you and and I know we have to do it, the masses do > not. They just trust it, and important mail disappears, unseen. > > I get tired of having to educate them to check their spam folder (which > they don't even know exists), and to deliberately mark non-spam mail as > being non-spam. Some don't even want to do that, because they're > afraid they'll mess up gmail which they think knows what it's doing. > Same here. Hah! The other trick, that may work, is to add desirable emails to > your contact list. > I get bounces for SPAM sent to non-existent address using my community-net address as the sender, so friends and family do need filters on mail claiming to come from me. A significant fraction of the SPAM I get on the community-net is sent with a from address selected from some list of stolen addresses but return address a gmail account. I've reported dozens of the return addresses to Google and the number I see has gone way down. -- George N. White III
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