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Re:How to Avoid Spam Filters by Houshalter on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:41PM (#10467245)
Tons of legitimate emails are caught in spam filters. The filter rules are mysterious and secret, and differ between clients. Gmail now has a >20% false positive rate for Linus Torvalds: https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/DiG9qANf5PA
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Re:How to Avoid Spam Filters by thrownaway2424 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @08:51PM (#10468521)
That was a bug that was fixed. I would say someone like Linus Torvalds has a very unusual pattern of mail, getting a huge volume of mail from a single source that happens to be a mailing list.
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Re:How to Avoid Spam Filters by Houshalter on Thursday October 29, 2015 @01:31AM (#10469453)
I wasn't aware of any bug. It's just that the spam filter is super hostile to emails from lesser known sources. This was posted just the other day: http://liminality.xyz/the-hostile-email-landscape/

It's about how it's basically impossible to set up your own mail server, because everyone assumes you are spam by default. They don't even give you a chance to prove otherwise.

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