On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:28 PM Razer <[1]rayzer@riseup.net> wrote:

     On 08/23/2016 02:07 PM, Mirimir wrote:
     > So why use GMail?
     >
     +1x10(6)
     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.

References

   1. mailto:rayzer@riseup.net