On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM Michael Thomas via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Here's what I don't understand: Gmail's spam filtering from everything I can tell is really good. Is the implication that they don't run their spam filters on posts to Google Groups? Wouldn't that hurt Google Groups' reputation for other spam filters? It seems like such an easy problem for them to solve.
I disagree. Gmail spam filtering has been pretty bad for me. A lot of mailing list traffic (various IETF lists and even NANOG) and responses from businesses that I communicate with end up in my spam folder. And a lot of real spam and phishing messages end up in my inbox. If I could, I would disable it and do my spam filtering manually. It would be less work than undoing the mess that the current filter creates.