[colug-432] gmail's aggressive spam filters

[Rick Troth]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Rick Hornsby
<richardjhornsby at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a word of caution, if you use gmail - their spam filters seem to be
> getting very aggressive lately.  I've found a handful of valid messages in
> my spam box recently, including Steve's "MediaWiki" list email from a few
> days ago.  This despite that I read from/write to the colug email address
> all the time.

Thanks for the tip.

> I've used gmail for a long time because their spam filters have tended to do
> a really good job keeping the crap out and leaving the other stuff alone.
> Starting to wonder if I shouldn't go back to running my own spamassassin.

I'm in the same boat!
Outsourced my email to Googoo "Apps for Domains" after two or three
years of "filter by forwarding" (also through Googoo).  Since pointing
my MX records at GMail servers, the number of things in the spam
folder has dropped dramatically.

To quote Dan Kaminsky, "... we have three problems in computer
security.  First, we can’t authenticate.  Second, we can’t write
secure code.  Third, we can’t bust the bad guys.".  (In a journal
entry about Aaron Swartz, but not *entirely* out of context.)  I don't
believe spam will go away until we do crypto signed email for
everything.

> The other big problem I'd have there is that nothing else I've tried, ever,
> can match gmail's search capabilities for finding a long-buried message.

Yep.
I find myself using the web interface more often even though I loathe
everything-via-web.  I guess my dogma got run over by my karma.  (Or
something to that effect: my ideals have proven weaker than my
choices.)


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