False Positives

spam

After 12 years of content filtering it would be true to say spam detection is more accurate that it’s ever been. Almost very solution has multiple complementary scanners and accurate blacklist services like Spamhaus are so good now.

But the volume of email is so high now and people run their whole lives over email so the problem of false positives is growing. Some of these examples are a good laugh if they didn’t involve airline tickets and purchase orders:

Also awkward realisation that Gmail’s spam filter also filters emails from your boss. SORRY SORRY SORRY. #flippingout
http://twitter.com/courtody/statuses/66074991392858112
 
Yahoo mail spam filter is a load of sh*t, 90% of my emails are now ending up in the Spam folder. It used to work, it has been disimproved.
http://twitter.com/G4GUO/statuses/63884681254420480
 
Omg…. I just found over 100 emails that were sent to Spam that shouldn’t have been. Gmail, we need to break up.
http://twitter.com/JLYoungsma/statuses/65577791143424000
 
Thanks yahoo, for putting my Scholarship notification e-mail in my spam folder. I COULD HAVE DELETED IT AND NEVER KNOWN. :T
http://twitter.com/rikkue/statuses/65897796120743936
 
You know what’s not cool? That GMail sent my plane ticket to NYC to my spam folder. THAT’S NOT COOL, GMAIL.
http://twitter.com/PBAmanda/status/65598878753370112

Posted by Carlton Duston on 9 May 2011 | 0 comments
Tagged with News, Opinion, None

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