Tim:
> > I don't make a great use of gmail (because it is a pain), it really
> > only gets used on Android apps that demanded registration and the one
> > or two people I know who use gmail where its spam detection is
> > completely whacko (false flagging according to gmail's presumptions).

Patrick O'Callaghan:
> The main reason I use Gmail is for its spam detection, which in my
> experience is excellent. I could count the number of false positives in
> the past decade on the fingers of one hand, not including the thumb. I
> don't even bother enabling Evolution's own spam detection plugins.
> 
> YMMV of course.

As is always the way...

I'd found mail I'd sent people to gmail had too often ended up in their
junk mail, which they never bother to check, and had to be told to do
so by other people.  Even once is too often with important things.

I find people do not train their systems.  Sure they may hit "junk" on
some spam, but never bother to do the opposite.  And I get the
impression that people who read their mail but never respond to it may
also be convincing gmail that such messages may be junk.

I only get one or two spams a day, thanks to countermeasures I take
instead of automatic spam handling.  Chiefly, by keeping addresses
private, and using a separate address for list mail with tight rules
about what's let through (lists were always a thing that got harvested
by spammers).  I get spam from the presumed to exist webmaster address
that's not published

Service providers have gotten better at spam trapping before it even
gets to us, they had to many years ago after a deluge made everyone's
email across the country unusable on the biggest ISP here.  Mailboxes
filled up in minutes, and complaints sky-rocketed.

e.g. Thousands of identical mail, mail also addressed to non-existent
addresses, deluges from common sources, can all be confidentially
identified and refused.  But that has to be done at the ISP level.

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Boilerplate:  All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list.
 

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