Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Mon Mar 15 17:03:39 CDT 2010
No one has asserted that. I did say: "When people like you report a legitimate newsletter as spam just because you are too damned lazy to unsubscribe, the newsletter starts getting flagged as spam by gmail for everyone and people who want to see it don't." Note, that's "people" - plural. I subscribe to a couple of newsletters which have specifically reported this problem - the newsletter becomes blocked by the likes of Google,Yahoo or Hotmail because of a number of such false spam reports. The first the newsletter editor knows of it is when they get hundreds, if not thousands of emails asking where is the latest issue. They then have to get it unblocked and resend. That's why Randy Cassingham has had to include this in his Terms of Service "Fair Warning! If you subscribe to any of our mailing lists, which as described includes verification of your subscription request, and subsequently you report any of our resulting mailings as "spam", you will be permanently banned from all of our lists, period." Take a look at this: http://email.about.com/od/spamfightingtips/qt/Don_t_Use_This_is_Spam_to_Unsubscribe.ht m -- Stuart On 15 Mar 2010 at 13:23, Heenan, Lambert wrote: > So it's good ol' irresponsible and selfish Lambert here. > > Let me see if I've got this straight: certain list members assert that > when little ol' me hits that 'Report Spam' button the whole machinery > that is the Google spam filter springs instantly into action and for > ever and irreversibly will flag such mail as spam for the whole realm > of Gmail users. > > This happens because I am the ultimate Super User on Google and so > what I say is spam is *SPAM*, and that filter algorithm just wakes > right and the "Lambert flags another SPAM' alarms start ringing in > Cupertino. > > If this were remotely true then you would all be running around right > now saying "where the f*** has all my mail gone?" Yet somehow, > millions of us Gmail users keep receiving email. What can have gone > wrong? > > Lambert > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com