[600MRG] loss of signal - not so simple

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi,

I suspect all of the 'popular' email services and especially those 
razzle-dazzle web based services are doing the best they can to 
'protect' "the great, unwashed masses" from the evils of spam. The 
(unrecognized) problem for the programmers is that we ain't all the 
same. Our wants and needs are different one from another.

A problem I ran into with the programming geeks when I was on IT staff 
is they have their pipe dreams and stuff their 'product' full of that. 
Somebody has to go into the business offices and lok over shoulders - 
ask questions - to make software work *for* and *with* the end users. It 
ain't going to be those geeks hidden in their closets. <now you have my 
opinion>.

I suppose I will start with my ISP and see how they handle email and 
usenet. If they just farm it out to one of the big name players they get 
scratched off the list and the search goes on. I do know what to do with 
filters and the spam.

I wonder what the people who do the spam blocking research do to get the 
spam (their meat and potatoes) through the present day spam blockers. 
You can't work 'em if you can't hear 'em.

73,

Bill  KU8H



On 11/10/2014 12:08 AM, Neil Klagge wrote:
> Hey Bill, and all,
> I am getting tired of the spam problem on gmail. Gmail is supposed to 
> be able to "Learn" what is NOT spam when we check the ''NOT SPAm'' 
> box. I have even tried putting several of the emails from the group 
> into my CONTACTs but that did not help either.
>
> I am about ready to go back to Hotmail and abandon gmail because of it.
>
> Just my thinking as I read ur problems with spam folder.
>
> Neil Klagge​
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