Re:Don't send to Gmail over IPv6
by Avamander on Friday June 03, 2022 @04:48PM
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> What does scale have to do with it, am I missing something?
The person I replied to said they can identify spam with 90% accuracy with a glance, my point was that it's abysmal as accuracy. Even orders of magnitude better it'd still be bad.
> Wouldn’t a spam detection rate of 99.999% mean that only every 100000th spam mail would get through on an account basis, how’s that terrible?
I didn't specify if it's per-account or a false positive rate, it's also actually not relevant to the point I'm trying to make.
When you receive billions of letters a month small errors start to matter and they're doing a better job than the person I replied to thinks they do.
The person I replied to said they can identify spam with 90% accuracy with a glance, my point was that it's abysmal as accuracy. Even orders of magnitude better it'd still be bad.
> Wouldn’t a spam detection rate of 99.999% mean that only every 100000th spam mail would get through on an account basis, how’s that terrible?
I didn't specify if it's per-account or a false positive rate, it's also actually not relevant to the point I'm trying to make.
When you receive billions of letters a month small errors start to matter and they're doing a better job than the person I replied to thinks they do.