Re: Google is amazing

On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:47:42 +0000 Sean Lynch wrote:

I used to have a filter that prevented Gmail from marking cpunks mail as spam, but I have intentionally avoided fixing that since the list address changed in hopes of training it not to suck so bad. So far I don't seem to have had much luck.

So apparently the system ignores the fact that messages come from a mailing list, and treats them as if they came directly from the original sender's address. And then wrongly marks some as spam. So it's doing it wrongly, twice. Adding a rule to stop it filtering messages with trait 'comes-from-cypher-whatever' works, but it seems to be slightly misaligned with the modern philosophy of "automatic system built for retards, I mean, for Important People Too Busy To Learn Anything".

One thing I did notice is that by default when you block a sender on Gmail it sends their messages to the spam folder instead of deleting them, which could mean its training the spam filter on them as well. If a lot of people do that, it could cause the spam filter to think other cpunks messages are also spam instead of just, say, Cypher Piggie's.

The solution for me is going to be to stop using Gmail once I find the time to set up my scandalous basement server. The easier solution is just to set up a filter with "never mark as spam" as someone else suggested whom I would credit by name were I not typing this on my phone in the bathroom.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 20:13 Razer wrote: