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Because we live in a world where most people use large E-Mail services like Gmail. And those providers don't know how to filter spam from your inbox. So they de
by dna_polymerase 9y ago
Because we live in a world where most people use large E-Mail services like Gmail. And those providers don't know how to filter spam from your inbox. So they decided to blacklist IPs and IP ranges (if they have bad reputation, which is a completely intransparent metric), so people are now forced to pay services like Sendgrid or Mailchimp to get their E-Mail in those mailboxes.
Funny part is, that Google has all the best ML engineers working for them, yet they seem to be unable to check a mail for spam... They can teach a computer to play Go at superhuman level yet they are not able to check an E-Mail for the words Viagra and Cialis.
- melq 9y agoI would argue that gmail's filters work quite well.
- newscracker 9y agoI would argue that they work a bit too aggressively and are also not intelligent as one would expect or assume them to be. I only have anecdotes here. I've seen instances where one personal email sent from Gmail's web interface is in the spam folder of the receiver. Sending emails to Google Groups subscribers also doesn't get delivered to the inbox several times (even when the receiver has never marked it as spam). With many people using smartphones to check email, my guess is that only a very small percentage of people still check their spam folders regularly to see if there were any false positives and help train the spam filter (to the extent it's willing to learn). Most people only check their inboxes (and many may not even know about a slam folder), and I'm sure there are billions of harmless and expected emails around the world that just got lost because of these filters.