Gmail Spam Filter Changes Bite Linus Torvalds

An anonymous reader points out The Register's story that recent changes to the spam filters that Google uses to pare down junk in gmail evidently are a bit overzealous. Linus Torvalds, who famously likes to manage by email, and whose email flow includes a lot of mailing lists, isn't happy with it. Ironically perhaps, it was only last week that the Gmail team blogged that its spam filter's rate of false positives is down to less than 0.05 per cent. In his post, Torvalds said his own experience belies that claim, and that around 30 per cent of the mail in his spam box turned out not to be spam. "It's actually at the point where I'm noticing missing messages in the email conversations I see, because Gmail has been marking emails in the middle of the conversation as spam. Things that people replied to and that contained patches and problem descriptions," Torvalds wrote.

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Not sure if this is first comment

[Mouldy]

Or if the other comment's got hit by spam filters

Re:Not sure if this is first comment

[Anonymous Coward]

No, you weren't the first as I posted a reply to this thread
two days ago and it wound up in Linus' inbox as a kernel bug-fix.

State the Obvious

[freeze128]

Well, Linus doesn't *HAVE* to use gmail. There are other email providers.

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[juanfgs]

more at 10

Poor Linus needs a gofundme

[RonVNX]

Apparently he can't afford to purchase decent email service. Maybe someday he'll create something important and then he can get off the crap freemail.

he's using gmail?

[hymie!]

Somebody should tell Linus about this great new operating system I run at home. I have sendmail running on my machine, and it lets me control my spam filters and everything.

It's called "Linux". I highly recommend it.