Gmail email blocking is off the rails (again)

Thu Dec 5 09:34:37 UTC 2019

"John Levine" <johnl at iecc.com> writes:

> Google accepts my mail just fine, including from my mailing lists.
> Their goal is to make their users happy by accepting the mail the
> users want and not the mail the users don't want.

If we rule out asking the users for every mail, then that means applying
statistics on empirical data.  The problem is that smoothing the edges
might throw away mail that the recipient care about, just because most
other users didn't.

Small players risk being blocked on the sole reason that they are too
small to make any measurable number of gmail users want their mail.

Bjørn