How to get a job at Google: add annoying stuff no one asked for, ignore requests users want
"Sorry, Maps isn't hiring, but there's an opening in Mail."
Dear Google Mail Team
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Re: Dear Google Mail Team
#132I'm kind of surprised that Linus uses Gmail. It's likely that he'll actually catch a Googler's attention, but for many of us, user feedback is not an option. @jacquesm's http://jacquesmattheij.com/ham-or-spam-gmail-not-to-be-trust... is another recent instance — but again, there's no call to action. Gmail is great for some people, but I prefer having more control, and I highly recommend https://FastMail.com if Gmail…
Linux Foundation uses Google Apps for Work. Source: I am an LF employee.
does the linux foundation have offices?
Re: Dear Google Mail Team
#133Re: Dear Google Mail Team
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can set up a filter to never mark the matching items a spam. That's what I do for the Lua Mailing list.
Come to think of it, if they're going to have a "Never send it to Spam" flag in filter config, shouldn't it default to TRUE? If you're taking the trouble to set up a filter, it's probably because you are interested in those messages.
Some mailing lists get spammed.
Re: Dear Google Mail Team
#135I could see 20% false positives on spam for Linus equating to 0.1% of false positives across the board since I suspect the people emailing Linus are 200 times more likely to be running their own mail server than the general public.
I decided to do a quick check of my gmail; there were 151 emails in spam, and literally not one I would want in my inbox. It seems entirely likely that Google is weighting whether something comes from a private mail server very heavily, and Linus, being who he is, gets a lot of email from private servers. Not saying this isn't a problem, but it probably doesn't affect 99% of email users.
So by your generous estimate, it affects more than one million users. Sounds kinda bad.
Re: Dear Google Mail Team
#136I'm guilty of this too, but it would really be great if we as a society could develop some impulse against putting all of our eggs in the first shiny basket we see.
Re: Dear Google Mail Team
#137I think even Google should fear the prospects of Linus Torvalds on a mission to "fix email".
Re: Dear Google Mail Team
#138No accident. Google controls enough of the worlds email now that can just turn the screws and capture the whole market.
Re: Dear Google Mail Team
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is illegal in the US[1] (and I believe EU, as well), and hence deserves to be reported as spam. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4496688
A big problem I've had is that many of these are "business relationship/transactional" e-mails, which play by different rules. My address is my first name + last initial (neither of which are all that uncommon), and this is made much worse by Gmails idiotic ignoring of periods in addresses. There is a dude in Denver, CO who is absolutely convinced his e-mail address is tyler.e@gmail.com. It isn't. I'm really sick of…
Can't you just set a filter on the wrongly dotted address? Not something you should have to do, but...