laurenia

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Ask HN: Gmail spam filters acting up?
3 points by laurenia 10y ago|2 comments
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by laurenia 13y ago
Those options aren't mutually exclusive.
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by laurenia 13y ago
You only have to look at the Salem Witch Trials to know that this has been going on for hundreds of years, and probably much longer than that. Any social group eventually develops its leaders and outcasts. Combine that with the human inst
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by laurenia 13y ago
There's a difference between doing research and making judgmental statements based upon assumptions. $23K is probably fine for a single guy. What about a man with children or aging parents? Medical bills? Most of the advice given is ver
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by laurenia 13y ago
Just because it's a phenomenon you don't have experience doesn't make it trivial. I would argue that there's a link between these teenage girls and our culture's depiction of the romantic side of 'bad boys.' I know far too many young wome
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by laurenia 13y ago
There needs to be a 'best practices' for the unsubscribe option. In the ideal case, you click unsubscribe in the email and are taken to a webpage either confirming your choice or asking you to click a single confirmation button. But somet
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by laurenia 13y ago
Assuming you don't get too many 'bad actors' showing the mean and the median would help.
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by laurenia 13y ago
Since your service is invite-only, why don't you post a screenshot of the page in question? If a significant portion of posters think the page is deceptive, maybe that's an indication that your UI is the problem, not the user.
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by laurenia 13y ago
Yes, I've created a filter so that any emails from certain people automatically get re-routed to the intended recipient.
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by laurenia 13y ago
I've gotten everything from business plans to divorce papers sent to my firstname.lastname@gmail.com address. In some cases I've tracked them down and called their cell phones, and they still mistakenly send me email. There are some peopl
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by laurenia 13y ago
Did they collect the money in advance? If not, it seems to me that the shipping time is almost irrelevant.