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0 pointsjeffparsons2y ago0 comments

> you don't think engineers who build web crawlers cannot build email classifiers?

We're talking about Google here. It doesn't matter that they have lots of clever people working there; they still occasionally get/guess things wrong, and if you're the unlucky too-small-to-even-notice outfit that happens to get squished by Google today, there's seldom much you can do about it.

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darylteo2y ago

Exactly... Outlook by Microsoft is notorious for being very heavy handed with emails, requiring sites to put warnings to users to whitelist their domains so that they receive invoices or notifications.

explaininjs2y ago

At this point with outlook it’s pretty much guaranteed that any important “you just paid a ton of money here is the asset you bought” email (show/bus/etc tickets) will go straight to spam. I check spam before I look in the non-“Focused” inbox.

amluto2y ago

If I send an email to some business, from the Outlook UI, and they reply, Outlook usually classifies the reply as spam. It’s hard to imagine less spammy email than that.

latchkey2y ago

I'd just rename the spam folder to "Inbox-2" or something. ;-)

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