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The legal naivete and indifference of otherwise technological savvy people is mind boggling. It is not the task of mail providers to block or hide email consid
by vfclists 7y ago
The legal naivete and indifference of otherwise technological savvy people is mind boggling.
It is not the task of mail providers to block or hide email considered to be spam. It is the job of the end users, ie the email providers cusstomers and their software.
Consider physical junk mail, ie the type that comes through the letter box.
The post office does not decide what is junk mail or not, their job is to deliver it and it is the customer's job to discard it.
The proper thing is for the mail provider to tag the emails their systems consider to be junk and deliver it the customers inbox and let the customers decide.
Google's customers are the problem, not Google itself.
- xxs 7y ago>Consider physical junk mail... Where I live it takes a sticker 'no spam' glued to the mail box and no more junk happens
- sambe 7y agoI've lived in several places where this practice is common and none where it remotely works - it's totally ignored. Where are you based?
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- Majromax 7y ago> Google's customers are the problem, not Google itself. Kind-of? Ultimately, Google's customers are relying on Google's own filtering methodology. That's normally reasonable -- for the vast majority of people the spam filter works (from the recipient's perspective) so often that the spam folder is rarely even checked for false positives. However, Google has a scaling problem as noted by Brad Long later in the linked thread: linear scaling of human effort is too costly for them. That ultimately means that Google's services are offered on a like-it-or-leave-it basis, but leaving is made harder by the integration across the whole "Google ecosystem."