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Add to that algorithms used to ascertain whether email will be treated as spam. I'm tired of explaining to people that Google and Outlook email are NOT determin
by johnklos 4y ago
Add to that algorithms used to ascertain whether email will be treated as spam. I'm tired of explaining to people that Google and Outlook email are NOT deterministic, and that they could be missing email that might never even make it in to their spam folder, and they'd never know, nor would they ever know why.
People say that spammers would just do the minimum they need to get spam delivered, but every person can have their own personal threshold for their own spam filters.
- amadeuspagel 4y ago> People say that spammers would just do the minimum they need to get spam delivered, but every person can have their own personal threshold for their own spam filters. OK, so then rather then doing the minimum to get spam delivered, spammers would be more motivated to improve their spam to get above higher tresholds, so that people would have to set their tresholds higher and higher until all the legitimate mail they get is classified as spam.
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- johnklos 4y agoThat's not how it works, else that's what we'd already be seeing.
- amadeuspagel 4y agoWe're not already seeing that because those algorithms are secret.
- johnklos 4y agoThat's a leap. You think that spammers are not knowing which spam is silently dropped is the one thing that's keeping them from leveling up? I strongly disagree. Even if that were the case, in my experience, silent failure negatively affects actual delivery much more than any positive effect it might have.