On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:28 PM Razer
On 08/23/2016 02:07 PM, Mirimir wrote:
So why use GMail?
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I've heard SOME people use it b/c "Filtering". (scratches head wondering wtf is so special about gmail filtering)
I (gasp!) use it for newsletters. GOOD LUCK trying to profile me from them. I get LeMonde Diplomatique, Strafor's newletter AND Animal Liberation Front Office bulletins.
Yeah, Gmail filters pale in comparison to Procmail or Sieve, though I tend to do very little filtering these days. For the most part, I like Inbox's email workflow, except for that part about not disaggregating threads I've responded on if I'm not mentioned in the recipients of a reply. I had much better luck with Spamassassin than I do with Gmail's spam filtering, too. Gmail seems to err on the side of false positives, which IMO is unforgiveable because it forces people to go through their spam folder when they could otherwise just pretend it doesn't exist. Nearly all of the false positives are messages sent to mailing lists that some idiot probably marked as spam, which IMO is the fundamental problem with "crowdsourcing": the crowd are by and large morons. Spamassassin uses some crowdsourced data sources, but it weights them accordingly, and I imagine the people contributing to those datasources tend to be a bit more obsessive about properly identifying spam than your average gmail user.