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I remember when Gmail came out the spam filtering was so good people commented about how they finally felt comfortable sharing their email in public again. Not
by madrox 6y ago
I remember when Gmail came out the spam filtering was so good people commented about how they finally felt comfortable sharing their email in public again. Not anymore, I guess.
It makes me sad that email as a system has gotten so wildly out of control that users feel the only way to protect themselves is to hide their address. Clearly the spammers have won.
I'm actually surprised there hasn't been more email innovation over the last decade. Surely we can do better here so our reaction to something like this isn't anxiety.
- zeusflight 6y agoI don't know if this is my personal experience alone, but I feel that open source spam filters like spamassassin and rspamd do a much better job than gmail's filter. Gmail's filter has too many false positives and false negatives. We shouldn't give up on email just because gmail is bad at it. Besides, I feel that gmail and most other webmail providers have created a bad usage pattern for email. Email is much more pleasant when used with an indexing tool (notmuch/mu), custom filters (sieve) and a proper spam filter. Custom domain with dedicated account (or alias) for development also improves the situation.
- madrox 6y agoI was using gmail as an example. I have no idea what people are using for spam filtering, but whatever it is it's clearly not so good that they don't care whether their address is in the public.