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I use gmail, so I just use the "Report as spam" option. I'm assuming Google uses that information in some way when calculating spam scores. So if enough people
by joekrill 6y ago
I use gmail, so I just use the "Report as spam" option. I'm assuming Google uses that information in some way when calculating spam scores. So if enough people do the same, those emails will just start getting sent to spam automatically for huge amounts of people, and therefore punishing those folks for doing it in the first place. That seems more effective to me.
And I just never really had that big of an issue with spam where I needed to black-hole a specific email address. So for me it just wasn't worth the effort.
- rootlocus 6y agoPeople using "report as spam" is what made gmail such a great spam filter. Is also the reason google has such high market share of public email addresses. It's also why people running their own mail servers are afraid of being blacklisted by google.
- newsbinator 6y agoYesterday I used the report as spam feature on an email from Microsoft. The footer had no unsubscribe option and the "manage communication preferences" requires a login/password combo that I couldn't be bothered to reset for my new geolocation. I doubt this'll make a dent in Microsoft.com's spam score.