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Hiding messages in a spam folder is essentially ghosting. Email servers should reject messages that they consider spam. I've run into countless problems becaus
by dorfsmay 4y ago
Hiding messages in a spam folder is essentially ghosting. Email servers should reject messages that they consider spam.
I've run into countless problems because of my messages being marked as spam. The worse is that now it as become socially acceptable to ghost people, I never know who ghosted me, the mail server or the person! I've run into "I ignore your email, get the hint" a few times when thinking I was marked as spam and tried to contact people through other means.
- rascul 4y agoToo many false positives to reject everything they consider spam.
- dorfsmay 4y agoRight, and this is exactly why they need to reject. At least the sender would know and could try to contact the receiver to let them know Gmail/outlook is blocking them. Right now, when you send an email, you don't know if it was received or not and if the lack of answer is a conscious decision or because of filtering.
- peddling-brink 4y agoYou can blame the spammers for that. Do you remember the bad old days of spam? Left unchecked I think it might have destroyed the e-mail ecosystem entirely. Regarding the block vs reject, that unfortunately gives a big tip to the people whose working hours are spent trying to defeat three blocks and send you more spam.
- dorfsmay 4y agoYes I remember, but this was a different world, it was a world without reputation networks, without ip black lists, with SPF/DKIM. There is not reason at all to suspect that a message from a small server with proper SPF and DKIM that has never sent spam (for real or spoofed, see SPF), is spam. The other half is from small servers that sprung over night and have no reputation. Half of the spam I receive is from google/outlook/amazon. They don't block each other, do they?