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Judge tears apart Republican lawsuit alleging bias in Gmail spam filter
(arstechnica.com)
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Spam filters are also built with users in mind.
If users are hitting the spam button, that's people signaling that the email is shit.
If people are telling them to shut up, that's not bias, that's "your words are garbage to GTFO"
Also, spam filters are trained by user response. Guess what personality type/computer education level is more likely to hit “REPORT SPAM” button versus the more technologically sophisticated and patient methods of deleting an email, unsubscribing, or filtering out, and how that may relate to their political party.
I work in IT and hit Spam on everything I perceive as spam.
Poison all the data and fuck spammers straight to hell, tyvm.
This is the way. I hit spam on every email I'm upset about receiving before unsubscribing.
I’ve seen some people deal with newsletters they signed up for that way and it’s unarguably a misuse and abuse of the system. “I don’t want these messages any longer” is not the same as unsolicited or abusive mail. For instance I see a small chocolate company and a granola company in my spam folder in gmail. Do they “spam”? No, there’s a really huge difference between e-mail marketing and spam. It sounds like what you 'perceive' as spam is based on not really knowing what it is.
Is that some juvenile badassery or something?
yes, fuck spammers but not small companies doing email marketing. Email marketing is the only effective way to grow a business online these days without paying some giant fuckstick corporation like Facebook, so I don't believe what you stated is accomplishing what seems to be your goal. If you make email marketing unusable, that helps google sell ads.
Sorry, but I call horse_shit_ on this. If the only way you can grow your business is to shovel your garbage into my personal inbox, then it's spam, plain and simple.
If I have to give you my e-mail address to order something and you default "sign up for more of my bullshit" to checked, then fuck you.
I see this as "Did I intend to get this email?" Then nothing happens. If I did not intent to receive it then it is spam because I never intentionally subscribe to any marketing emails.
That's accurate and reasonable.
You’ve never done something and thought “oh hell this isn’t want I signed up for”?
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Do you, by chance, run a business that sends out mass email spam?
No, I sure don’t. I don’t have anything to do with companies that do legitimate email marketing, either. But I am able to understand the difference.
I'm not sure what the stupid emoji is supposed to mean, by the way.
So you’re just a mass-market email fanboy?
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So you're someone who doesn't understand the difference between newsletters and spam, and uses stupid emoji to make your points?
I’ll take that as a yes
no, it was actually a way of informing you that you seem to be immature and not interacting with people in a productive way.
From Wikipedia:
So yeah, what you described is spam by definition.
No, the difference i have noted is solicited vs unsolicited. If you sign up for something it is solicited as based on the definition of the word. Deciding you no longer wish to receive it is different than if you never signed up in the first place. Amazing how confused people are about this.