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Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?

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Post by znpy »

im_down_w_otp wrote: post #21

For the last year or so I've noticed an increasing amount of my legitimate professional interactions going into my "Promotions" tab in Gmail. The effect of which has been, after discovering a few mishaps of this sort, to now regularly and meticulously go through a massive pile of "Promotions" just to make sure I haven't missed something legitimately urgent or important. Prior to Google's classification errors produci…

If you didn't realize it, Google has managed to get you to waster your time actually going through advertising (instead of putting that on the side for you).

I'm really surprised most people aren't realizing this.

Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?

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Post by taftster »

labria wrote: post #54
im_down_w_otp wrote: post #21

For the last year or so I've noticed an increasing amount of my legitimate professional interactions going into my "Promotions" tab in Gmail. The effect of which has been, after discovering a few mishaps of this sort, to now regularly and meticulously go through a massive pile of "Promotions" just to make sure I haven't missed something legitimately urgent or important. Prior to Google's classification errors produci…

I just disable this filtering. It’s more damage than good nowadays…

Nowadays? Try day one. I always thought of this as a misfeature and disabled it from the start. I have no idea how this would be useful to me.

Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?

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Post by thrower123 »

jmcphers wrote: post #46

I have exactly the opposite problem: tons of legitimate email is getting flagged as Spam by GMail. It's now happening regularly with emails from people in my contacts with whom I regularly exchange messages . Mind-boggling. I know spam filtering is a hard problem, but these are just obvious misses.

I don't understand how to get Gmail to stop marking emails from my contacts as spam.

Funny enough, the mails it penalizes worst are GMail addresses for small businesses, like my vet or the pizza shop.

Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?

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Post by skinkestek »

jmcphers wrote: post #46

I have exactly the opposite problem: tons of legitimate email is getting flagged as Spam by GMail. It's now happening regularly with emails from people in my contacts with whom I regularly exchange messages . Mind-boggling. I know spam filtering is a hard problem, but these are just obvious misses.

If this is company mail you might have a colleague who uses the spam button instead of delete.

I once caught my boss doing this (he was not a native English speaker, but absolutely used to communicating in English so it shocked me.)

Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?

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Post by dntrkv »

taftster wrote: post #62
labria wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just disable this filtering. It’s more damage than good nowadays…

Nowadays? Try day one. I always thought of this as a misfeature and disabled it from the start. I have no idea how this would be useful to me.

For me, it's been the single greatest boost to email productivity. It works great 99%+ of the time for me where I only keep any eye on Updates and Primary, and maybe once a week clear out the Promotions tab. Forums and Social I can usually clear out without even looking.

Interesting how people can have such different experiences.

Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?

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Post by chabad360 »

znpy wrote: post #61
im_down_w_otp wrote: post #21

For the last year or so I've noticed an increasing amount of my legitimate professional interactions going into my "Promotions" tab in Gmail. The effect of which has been, after discovering a few mishaps of this sort, to now regularly and meticulously go through a massive pile of "Promotions" just to make sure I haven't missed something legitimately urgent or important. Prior to Google's classification errors produci…

If you didn't realize it, Google has managed to get you to waster your time actually going through advertising (instead of putting that on the side for you). I'm really surprised most people aren't realizing this.

Huh. I thought it had something to do with my subscription to oss-security (the plain-text email causing some confusion in the filters). But clearly it's not just me...
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