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Re:Gmail was down by nfoz on Friday January 24, 2014 @02:58PM (#7117516)
Honestly, my gmail gets a lot more spam (and I mean into my Inbox) than the self-hosted email that I actually use (I rarely touch my gmail).

Also they seem to engage in very spammer-friendly activities such as notifying spammers if and when you read their spam email (if images are turned on by default). Soooo, I can't imagine that competing against their spam filtering is as impossible as people tend to believe.

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Re:Gmail was down by andrewem on Friday January 24, 2014 @07:59PM (#7119329)
Now they're caching each image once for all users, which pretty much defeats that.
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Re:Gmail was down by schrodinger on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:10AM (#7119940)
Not really, now you just have to have a unique image URL for each email you send. How could they possibly tell they are the same image before downloading them?
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Re:Gmail was down by nfoz on Monday January 27, 2014 @03:38PM (#7133045)
Exactly; their behaviour is still extremely friendly to the spammers/trackers.
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