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#231098 - 04/09/2004 04:23 Re: Gmail invite [Re: Phoenix42]
The Central Guy
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I have some if any bbs members want one....Send me a PM and I'll hook you up until they're gone....Randy
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#231099 - 04/09/2004 13:10 Re: Gmail invite [Re: pgrzelak]
lectric
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Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
To me it's just handy to have an auto-filtering email account anywhere I go. The implementation of filters and labels is really nice.

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#231100 - 04/09/2004 15:04 Not all messages received? [Re: lectric]
davec
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Registered: 18/08/2000
Posts: 992
Loc: Georgetown, TX USA
Anyone ever not receive emails they know were sent to their gmail address? I've had two now that I know for sure were sent and not received. One was sent by me from a non-gmail account and another was someone I was conversing with thru email and it suddenly stopped. He said he had replied answering my question already...
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#231101 - 04/09/2004 15:33 Re: Not all messages received? [Re: davec]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31571
Loc: Seattle, WA
checked your spam folder?
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#231102 - 04/09/2004 15:33 Re: Not all messages received? [Re: davec]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
I've heard reports of gmail's spam filters being overzealous.
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#231103 - 04/09/2004 17:20 Re: Not all messages received? [Re: tfabris]
davec
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Registered: 18/08/2000
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Loc: Georgetown, TX USA
Yeah I looked in the spam folder, nothing... I had received previous emails from that person, and it would have been a reply which would have fallen under the same "conversation" in the Gmail inbox that has 7 messages in it now...
The other was a mesage from me to a mailing list, which I do have set to receive my own postings from,...
Maybe they'll show up in 40 years like those old letters through the post office do sometimes...
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#231104 - 04/09/2004 17:59 Re: Not all messages received? [Re: wfaulk]
bonzi
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Registered: 13/09/1999
Posts: 2401
Loc: Croatia
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I've heard reports of gmail's spam filters being overzealous.

Slightly, perhaps 0.5% false-positive rate for me, and that for messages that do look somewhat like spam (mostly newsletters in HTML). Still, makes checking spam folder necessary. Then again, I am yet to see a spam filter where it is not. For example, well-trained K9 has perhaps 0.1% false-positive rate (which you pay for with at least 10% false-negative), and PopFile both in 1% range, in my experience. Depends on how consistent one's perception of spam is, too, of course.
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#231105 - 05/09/2004 03:56 Re: Not all messages received? [Re: bonzi]
tanstaafl.
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Registered: 08/07/1999
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Loc: Ajijic, Mexico
Still, makes checking spam folder necessary

Which completely negates the advantages of having a spam filter at all.

You still have to plow through all your emails, except now it's a bit harder because you have to look through multiple folders.

Sigh...

tanstaafl.
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#231106 - 05/09/2004 07:33 Re: Not all messages received? [Re: tanstaafl.]
bonzi
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Registered: 13/09/1999
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Still, makes checking spam folder necessary

Which completely negates the advantages of having a spam filter at all.

You still have to plow through all your emails, except now it's a bit harder because you have to look through multiple folders.

I don't know, you should be right, but I somehow feel this to be more convenient, especially with a line or so of the message displayed along with subject and sender, as Gmail does. Even with a 'normal' POP3 client (e.g. OE) and decent Bayesian (sp?) filter (I switched from POPFile to K9) it seems to me faster to glance once or twice a day at spam folder and, unless I spot something familiar, delete everything in one go than to delete messages from my inbox one by one. Besides, false-positives are never 'normal' textual messages that one cares for the most, but usually HTML-formatted newsletters (e.g. the one from Java Developer's Journal I found among spam another day) which will not be missed terribly if deleted by accident.
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#231107 - 10/09/2004 16:59 Re: Gmail invite [Re: Phoenix42]
image
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#231108 - 11/09/2004 07:36 Re: Gmail invite [Re: image]
image
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Registered: 28/04/2002
Posts: 770
Loc: Los Angeles, CA
geez, how many versions of acidfantasy do you need? =) not one of my friends, i'm pretty sure.

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#231109 - 11/09/2004 07:44 Re: Gmail invite [Re: image]
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Edited by image (11/09/2004 07:50)

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#231110 - 11/09/2004 12:07 Re: Gmail invite [Re: image]
The Central Guy
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#231111 - 11/09/2004 23:52 Re: Gmail invite [Re: The Central Guy]
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Registered: 28/04/2002
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Loc: Los Angeles, CA
wow, looks like someone posted the links to a spanish site =)

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#231112 - 14/09/2004 05:29 Re: Gmail invite [Re: image]
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#231113 - 22/09/2004 04:11 Re: Gmail invite [Re: image]
ricin
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For anyone who is still looking for invites, or looking to get rid of invites, check out the Gmail Invite Spooler.
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#231114 - 22/09/2004 11:09 Re: Gmail invite [Re: ricin]
Phoenix42
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Registered: 21/03/2002
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Loc: MA but Irish born
Cool link Donato.

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