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It's not an @gmail.com address. And why do people keep making excuses for Google? Google simply isn't very good at filtering spam, something most regular ISP'

• polyfractal 14y ago
  Fun fact, Google doesn't play nicely with ESPs either. Most mail providers (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) use a feedback loop when you report spam. After you mash the spam button, the ESP that sent the mail is notified that a particular email was flagged as spam. This allows the ESP to curtail spam problems on their end (for example, Mailchimp heavily throttles your emails or outright bans you if your spam rate creeps past a very low percentage). It's an all-around good thing for the ecosystem, with the exception perhaps of publishers that get the unlucky "spam instead of unsubscribe" user action. But Gmail does not participate in this loop. They don't tell any ESP that a user has marked an email as spam...that data all stays in house. Why? Hell if I know - perhaps they don't want to tip off spammers to being detected. On the flipside, reputable ESPs get less leverage on spammers in their network.
  • Thing_Two 14y ago
    because it would allow spam houses to train their software to avoid the Google spam filter. No feedback loop makes it harder to train (not impossible, just harder)
• Peaker 14y ago
  My experience has been the opposite. I get very few spams per month in gmail, but other mail providers I've used had done far worse spam filtering (walla mail, yahoo mail, netvision).