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<p>It is interesting to speculate as to how much of the
disjointedness of our discussions/threads here are the result of
lossy communications at the remailer/spam-filter level.</p>
<p>After trying various spam-filter tools and heuristics back in the
day when they first emerged, I settled on using Thunderbird's
tools with the default that suspected spam is marked but not moved
automatically. This leads me to (usually) visually scan suspected
spam, leaving the the chance to catch false positives. I make it
a habit to attempt to unsubscribe from mail lists I prefer NOT to
get mail from before marking it as spam. <br>
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<p>I am fascinated by the contrast between the various qualities of
the spam I do get and which types seem to elude my spam filter.</p>
<p>I myself do experience what appears to be mail-reflector drops,
recognizing them *mostly* by seeing larded comments in a reply
that I did not see in it's original. I also believe I sometimes
experience *delays* where the original post does come through, but
*after* one or more responses to it. When larding is used well,
this is not too confusing... unlarded/included responses can be
puzzling.</p>
<p>I'm glad to hear that others here are not aware that their own
spam filters may be contributing to the confusion.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I wondered why the discussions on friam had been so
incomplete lately. Gmail was storing most of them in my spam
folder, 32 threads spam canned in 30 days.
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