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No. Missing emails from friends and acquaintances would get noticed (and therefore people would look in their spam boxes). Missing emails from strangers could b
by pwpwp 16y ago
No. Missing emails from friends and acquaintances would get noticed (and therefore people would look in their spam boxes). Missing emails from strangers could be disappearing regularly without anyone noticing.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoPeople look in their spam folder. They see an email which shouldn't have been in there. They thus increase their frequency of checking. That is what Google is claiming, and what I am agreeing with them about.
- qjz 16y agoPeople look in their spam folder. Are you sure? I'd be willing to bet that the majority of users either don't know the spam folder exists or trust it to be a one-way black hole dustbin they never feel compelled to dig around in. False positives are more likely to be discovered when reported by the sender directly to the recipient via other means than email. Even then, I'd be surprised if half of them followed up by trying to locate the message in the spam folder. Frequency of checking seems like an unreliable metric when most users live in the INBOX, especially when Google virtually organizes the messages into "conversations" for them.