Are Spam Blockers Too Strict?

Myrte writes "Wired.com has a long piece on whether spam blockers are blocking wanted messages." From the article: "For years, e-mail users complained that torrents of unwanted messages clogged their inboxes and crimped their productivity. Now, e-mail users, marketers and mailing list operators are more worried that spam filters are blocking out too many wanted messages. AOL isn't the only company to face charges that it improperly blocks legitimate messages. But, as the world's largest ISP for years, it has long borne the brunt of complaints from mass e-mailers over the problem."

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[Peyna]

I have yet to find a single "wanted" e-mail end up in my Spam folder in Gmail. I get maybe 1-2 "unwanted" e-mails in my Inbox, that I quickly mark as spam and never see again. Most of those tend to be in languages I can't read. I wish I could just block all e-mails that aren't in English, but that doesn't seem to be an option yet.