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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 3580 days ago
> You were claiming "they could just as well package into, say, an install CD image" which is likely not going to happen, so he was just giving an example.

What's the point of pointing out the one example among millions of email server setups that is most likely to not be published? Especially so, given that that would be about the most useless setup to replicate, as noone needs the scalability of gmail for their own setup, and thus the complexity that would come with it.

> The perfect spam filter Gmail has its probably based on data and ML analysis, not a simple software you can put on a CD and install on some little server; so even if someone who works there wanted to help you they probably can't do it.

If you think that gmail's spam filter is perfect, I have a very simple even more perfect spam filter: Just throw away all emails. Gmail has massive false positive rates, that's not a perfect filter, that's just a filter that throws away a lot of emails.

If anything, the control that google has over which emails it arbitrarily labels as spam is completely unacceptable, especially so given that they don't even accept liability for incorrectly filtered emails.