Ewen Bell 📸Mar 18
While I'm on a roll with my cranky pants today, WTAF cannot anybody at @fastmail write an algorithm that detects as spam the 100 or so versions of this email I get every week?

I can detect them without even opening the email. Yet somehow it's beyond the resources of a very large email provider to crack this?

It's the worst thing about Fastmail. They're a good mob in lots of other regards, but seriously I tag these again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and yet they keep extracting my time and effort.
Show threadEwen Bell 📸Mar 18
@fastmail

How is it possible my mail service can't work out these are spam?
Show threadMichael RussellMar 18
@ewen Well, not filtering out spam IS faster. ;) @fastmail
Show threadEwen Bell 📸Mar 18
@michaelrussell @fastmail

I feel the "learning" part of the system is really not learning at all.

Gmail used to drop legitimate emails into spam but overlook a lot of spam. So maybe this is an upgrade.

Just cannot believe the volume of spam I've flagged, and burner email amounts I've blocked, without the system learning any better.
Show threadshom

@ewen wow you get an absolute deluge of these. I certainly hope spam filtering @fastmail steps up. I don't use gmail but it's hard to recommend others move off when the alternatives have these issues that the regular user just isn't willing to deal with (understandably so)!

@michaelrussell

Mar 18 at 10:53pmWeb