Mastodawn

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.

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Alexander S. Kunz 6d ago

@ewen interesting. I noticed these "throwaway GMail" (and Outlook too) spam accounts have gotten more frequent. Which makes sense, as their SPF/DKIM/DMARC checks out nicely — perfectly legitimate senders! Fun how all that stuff backfired. 😆

That FM can't deal with it is astonishing. Bayes filtering for email has been around for 30-40 years now? I remember running it locally as a proxy, on my own computer. After just a few hours of training it would catch 95% of spam. Ah, the good old days. ;)

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Ewen Bell 📸

@alexskunz

Note sure they're hitting 95% of the spam, but they are catching a lot of spam. So I have to acknowledge that FM is not completely chonking the task.

Meanwhile I waste sooooo much time and attention on things that I thought computers were good at.

In a world with so much awful happening at home and abroad, having some control over a tiny part of one's life feels outsized important. The lack of control over my inbox is really shitting me.