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US approves Google plan to let political emails bypass Gmail spam filter
- mtgentry 4y agoPoliticians are the worst at abusing email. I donated once to Obama in 2008 and now I can’t stop getting emails and texts from dozens of other democratic candidates.
- pradn 4y agoNancy Pelosi spams me from different numbers, after I tell her to stop each time. Is this the sort of thing that makes people like, trust, and vote for you? Or is it just desperation or cynicism?
- tmpz22 4y ago
- gowld 4y agoThe Democratic SMS spam is far worse, since most phone apps don't let you create filters based on content.
- cdransf 4y ago_Can_ whine to the FEC, _can't_ find a vendor that knows how to configure DNS records for sending email.
- smt88 4y agoThis isn't the problem. The problem is that campaigns use absolutely relentless email barrages, often with alarming or upsetting subject lines. Then their own supporters get fed up and mark them as spam, and you get into the situation you're in now. I receive 2-3 campaign SMS messages a day, and they all go straight to spam because they trigger Google Fi's automatic filters.
- cdransf 4y agoI mean, the volume is absolutely an issue but it looks like they failed to configure DKIM/DMARC/SPF and this is a lazy policy end run around a gap in technical knowledge. I'm not surprised, but it is a bit amusing.
- bfrog 4y agoYet more reason to ditch gmail
- fswd 4y agoGoogle voice won't allow me to send MMS/SMS that are political to a friend I've texted for years anymore. It was a picture making fun of alex jones. T-mobile also is censoring MMS.
- tencentshill 4y ago
- miga 4y agoThe need for the bypass indicates what is wrong with political marketing: too low standards, too much disinformation.