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by zerocrates 2139 days ago
You could interpret that in a positive way, that they're not just papering over problems in their filter by privileging their own messages.

Not super positive but still.

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You could also interpret it in a negative way. They don't maintain _anything_ over there. How hard would it be to whitelist (can I still say that?) super high value, bulk sending, domains?
I suspect that’s what they tell themselves. And that heuristics are beneath them. Better to have an elegant algorithm that does the wrong thing automatically than a set of human-tweaked rules that could come much closer (also automatically) to doing the right thing.