[discuss] Gmail spam detection [first three months of discussions]

[Jorge Amodio]

Yup, I mentioned it to Seun in private that probably the mention of slideshare triggered gmail's algorithm but found other messages from the list that ended there and did just that marked each message as not spam.

-Jorge

> On Jan 4, 2014, at 7:18 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 05/01/2014 05:14, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ...
>>> Something interesting is that I didn't see yet Pablo's original mail
>>> through the list but it shows on the archives.
>>> 
>>> Anybody else has his message missing ?
>>> 
>>> Yeah, although it was filtered as spam, since we use the same provider you
>> may want to check your spam folder ;)
> 
> I've noticed that gmail tags a significant fraction of this list's
> traffic as spam. In one case, I'm sure it's the sender's address
> that triggers the filter, but there is something else too. If all
> gmail users here can take the time to click 'not spam' each time,
> we can hopefully train the algorithm to be kinder to 1net.
> 
>   Brian (3/4 for today)