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by newjersey
3583 days ago
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How would you implement a spam filter? You can sort of turn off spam filtering on incoming emails but I don't most people or organizations would want that. > Completely useless for any organization with needs that deviate from Joe User. Maybe but being slightly over aggressive means a world in terms of user happiness. Think about email before Gmail. How much junk did you see in your inbox? There is a lot LESS today. Joe User would be very happy if they dried to think about it for a second. |
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What do you mean "implement"? You are aware that there exists free spam filtering software that you can install, like, say, spamassassin (which has been around longer than gmail)?
> Maybe but being slightly over aggressive means a world in terms of user happiness.
Dropping legitimate emails is good for user happiness? You have strange users. I imagine if the post office decided to throw away some letters "slighty over aggressive[ly]" ... there are people who would be happy if that happened?
> Think about email before Gmail. How much junk did you see in your inbox? There is a lot LESS today.
I see maybe one to three spam mails per day, with nearly zero false positives (maybe one per year). And that's without gmail. Obviously, I could reduce that to zero spam, at the cost of increased false positives, which is not a sensible option as far as I am concerned, deleting three mails per day isn't really all that much work.