I was there when they launched Gmail. I had an email account at almost every other big provider. Most of them were full of spam. Gmail was clean and the amount of legitimate emails misclassified was insignificant.
Everyone else had to up their game due to Gmail. On all fronts.
Re:Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
by account42 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @06:31AM
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Comparing a new gmail account to an older account that hat many more chances to end up on spam lists is not really fair though.
Re:Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
by tester34 on Monday May 24, 2021 @09:18AM
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Honestly, over years I think the amount of emails that were marked as spam but actually weren't (they were news letters that I didn't consider as spam but also were not important)
was below 5, I think.
meanwhile tons of spam (crypto related) is marked as spam, without that it'd be pain enter my mailbox
even if that means a chunk of legitimate mail gets marked as spam
Obviously a personal anecdote, but I signed up for Gmail close to when it first came out, and I don't think I've ever had a legitimate piece of mail marked as spam.
I remember people clamoring to sign up for Gmail because it was the new thing, it had the counter that kept going up with "a lot" of storage space, etc. Folks were even paying others for a Gmail invite.
> Most smaller admins seem concerned about correctness and so they don't do this.
This, definitely. Take a look at gmail spam folder, it's always full of false positives.
I think this really sums up Google's M.O. in general.