On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 3:55 PM Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2023-06-23 at 13:38 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> I use my google account for lists.
I use a Yahoo one for that. Since most of the spam I used to receive
came via them, I thought I'd return the favour. And their unavoidable
anti-spam features seem less crap than Google's.
> Google's SPAM filters are effective, so much so that when the small
> local ISP my mother used was bought by a larger company that used a
> Google SPAM filtering service I had to regularly check the spam
> collection to retrieve legit messages.
And therein lay my big hate about anti-spam software, the false
positives. Quite apart from having to double-check on it negates the
value of using it, you and and I know we have to do it, the masses do
not. They just trust it, and important mail disappears, unseen.
I get tired of having to educate them to check their spam folder (which
they don't even know exists), and to deliberately mark non-spam mail as
being non-spam. Some don't even want to do that, because they're
afraid they'll mess up gmail which they think knows what it's doing.
Same here.
Hah! The other trick, that may work, is to add desirable emails to
your contact list.
I get bounces for SPAM sent to non-existent address using my community-net
address as the sender, so friends and family do need filters on mail claiming to
come from me.
A significant fraction of the SPAM I get on the community-net is sent with a from
address selected from some list of stolen addresses but return address a gmail
account. I've reported dozens of the return addresses to Google and the number
I see has gone way down.
George N. White III
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