Dnia 5.08.2021 o godz. 08:57:22 Marcel Becker via mailop pisze: > > > running over-aggressive spam filters, knowing that there will be many false > > positives and not caring about them. > > > > This is an assumption you make. On the flip side though -- given the 90% I > mentioned -- making the smallest changes to decrease false positives, > might have disastrous effects on spam (or worse) hitting users' inboxes. > They are usually not happy about this either -- or do things they should > not be doing.
That leads us to the only correct conclusion - the root cause of the problem is that the big email providers have just become too big, up to the point where it is impossible to manage their spam filtering correctly, because they either will be filtering out legitimate emails or letting spam go through. And because they are so big, most new users choose their email service, just because they are so big and popular, what makes things even worse (for the small senders, of course the big providers are happy with increasing number of their users ;)). Don't let us be fooled with numbers like 90%. Even if the false positive rate is 0,001%, with the volume of the email those big providers are processing, it is still a substantial number of people whose email didn't get through, and it is a *real problem* for these people. Knowing the numbers you quote doesn't help them in any way with their problem. As someone already mentioned in this discussion, email was never meant to be so centralized. And because of this centralization, all the problem happened. Time for anti-monopoly law to come into play...? -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
