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Unfortunately most people who are looking for an article like this are looking for "How to send spam and avoid spam filters", not "How to respect the attention
by thrownaway2424 11y ago
Unfortunately most people who are looking for an article like this are looking for "How to send spam and avoid spam filters", not "How to respect the attention of my valuable customers in such a way as to not offend their spam filters."
- Houshalter 11y agoTons of legitimate emails are caught in spam filters. The filter rules are mysterious and secret, and differ between clients. Gmail now has a >20% false positive rate for Linus Torvalds: https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/DiG9qANf5PA https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/DiG9qANf5PA
- thrownaway2424 11y agoThat was a bug that was fixed. I would say someone like Linus Torvalds has a very unusual pattern of mail, getting a huge volume of mail from a single source that happens to be a mailing list.
- Houshalter 11y agoI wasn't aware of any bug. It's just that the spam filter is super hostile to emails from lesser known sources. This was posted just the other day: http://liminality.xyz/the-hostile-email-landscape/ http://liminality.xyz/the-hostile-email-landscape/ It's about how it's basically impossible to set up your own mail server, because everyone assumes you are spam by default. They don't even give you a chance to prove otherwise.