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That template used to be very popular -- pessimism feels cool, doesn't it? -- but it lost a lot of credibility when spam filters got really good. I hardly ever
by pjscott 14y ago
That template used to be very popular -- pessimism feels cool, doesn't it? -- but it lost a lot of credibility when spam filters got really good. I hardly ever get spam anymore.
- thaumasiotes 14y agoAs a consequence of living an atypical life, I have a somewhat dimmer view of spam filters. I don't get spam, but I also don't get genuine email from people I've actually corresponded with in the past. Seriously... if I maintain correspondence with a small set of qq numbers, and another qq number emails me, giving the exact same name as a different email account which I've written back and forth to... I shouldn't even see this new message, because it came from qq? This is the state of the art in gmail? And Gandi's webmail service won't even file mail from China as spam... it won't deliver it at all.
- Evbn 14y agoWhat is qq?
- thaumasiotes 14y agoQQ is basically the Chinese version of AOL. edit: except for providing internet access itself.
- Evbn 14y agoIt didn't lose credibility, it shot down every technique except the one that worked, Bayesian filtering. Plus I guess a handful of web mail services taking over hundreds of millions of accounts, which may have not been foreseen 10 years ago.