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Google has very little incentive to fix the problem, and outsourced support personnel have even less incentive to care. The entire google forums read like passi
by Simulacra 6y ago
Google has very little incentive to fix the problem, and outsourced support personnel have even less incentive to care. The entire google forums read like passing the buck.
- fpgaminer 6y ago> Google has very little incentive to fix the problem A long time ago, in an internet far, far away, Gmail was brand new. The big feature? No spam. Back then we'd hide our email addresses in cryptic text and images. It was a private thing, shared between friends. If the light of the internet were to ever shine upon your unobfuscated email address, woe be onto you as the plague of SPAM descended. There were even entire websites dedicate to the purpose of "email address images". It was ... a wild time. Then, GMAIL! For the first time since the dawn of SPAM we could post our addresses in plaintext, in the light of day. We didn't hide them like dirty underwear. The whole WORLD could see our email addresses, and we didn't have a care in the world. The smell of fresh email was in the air, unbesmirched by SPAM. Perhaps the young ones forget. Perhaps Google has forgotten. Lost to the sands of Calendar spam...
- Simulacra 6y agoI remember… I was at Stanford in 2000 and the future looked so bright.
- eximius 6y agoEven internally this bug is not prioritized. In their defense, it's not clear what the behaviour should be. Against them, there are options that, while not perfect, are better than the status quo, even if the user must manually set them.
- breakingcups 6y agoIn this case, the email is already flagged as spam in Gmail, but the calendar invite still gets added. To me it seems pretty clear what the behaviour should be. If flagged as spam, do not add to calendar.