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@dalias

I'm under the impression that gmail's Bayesian spam filter is what I'll term a Demented Ouroborus Algorithm:

• emails are marked as spam and put in the junk folder where the user never sees them

• because the email is in the junk folder, the algorithm takes that as confirmation that it is spam

• The algorithm then increases the spam likelihood score from that sender on that basis, sending more of their emails into their Gmail recipients' junk folders

• lather, rinse, repeat

@warthog9