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What's really crazy to me is that I'm on a local Google Group for the cycling community in the city I'm in. I somewhat regularly fish stuff out of my Gmail spa
by davidw 4y ago
What's really crazy to me is that I'm on a local Google Group for the cycling community in the city I'm in.
I somewhat regularly fish stuff out of my Gmail spam folder that went from
Someone's personal gmail account -> Google Group -> My Gmail account.
The message never left Google's infrastructure, and it's still being flagged as spam! They should have a lot of insight into those messages and be able to ascertain that it is not spam.
- jeffbee 4y agoIt's crowd-sourced. If there are gmail users that have marked traffic from that group as spam, it is spam. Doing anything else would violate the neutrality of Google with respect to classification, and probably upset eurocrats of various flavors.
- david_allison 4y agoThis also happens with Google-owned projects. A fair amount of Google Summer of Code communication goes to spam.
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- em-bee 4y agoa lot of gmail accounts are used to send spam, so having a gmail account as a source is not an indication of quality, and those need to be filtered just as much.
- davidw 4y agoYou'd think that having some data about the sending account would allow them to be more confident. They should know that it's not a spam account - or if it is, act on it?
- delfinom 4y agoThe problem is gmail's infrastructure is most likely (a) built for speed and processing the billions of emails a day and (b) legacy, it probably has none of the access to Google's modern infrastructure such as rating gmail account "quality"