A little request about spam

Timothy Grant timothy.grant at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 10:45:08 EDT 2005


On 4/14/05, mark hellewell <mark.hellewell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/14/05, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Please do not reply to spam. Replying to spam makes it much harder for
> > spam filters to catch all the spam or will produce very many false
> > positives. Atleast that's how gmail's filter works. And if you must
> > reply, please change the subject line.
> 
> Is anybody else finding that Gmails spam filter has started
> labelling a lot of python-list emails as spam? About 20
> python-list emails a day end up getting caught by their
> filter and I'm having to manually go in and mark them
> as "Not spam".

Absolutely! I didn't know if it were just me or what but starting a
couple of weeks ago, The filter went from near perfect to trapping 20+
good emails per day.

Very annoying.

-- 
Stand Fast,
    tjg.



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