Post by Drugwash » 23 Oct 2018, 18:51
Automated systems may sometimes fail, marking as spam content that is perfectly legitimate. AOL at some point started to mark all MSFN board e-mail notifications as spam despite my unspamming each and every one of them for days, which eventually made me disable the spam "protection" completely - that is, "don't mess with my messages, I'll be the judge of what is and is not spam". And then I switched registration address to mail.com, over at MSFN, and now I'm getting all those notifications just fine. Thing that I would like to do here too.
That's about e-mail providers but automation - isn't it ironic to speak about automation failure here…? - may fail in any system, including this board's. What if one misses a legitimate and important message by accident, due to such failure? You say no human is reading those messages so nobody would know what's actually lost - except for the sender. Wordpress' Akismet also regularly throws legitimate messages from known users into Spam, but they have the decency to leave those messages there so the user could manually analyze and assess whether they really are unwanted. And no, I don't particularly care about reading spam, but certain information extracted from such messages could be of use in other contexts (forensic analysis).
So basically what I'd like - if/when other more important work is finished - is place a big red banner reading "SPAM" on such messages but leave them there for the user to decide. If only to eliminate the bad "WTF!?" sensation when you log in upon getting the notification e-mail only to find nothing in the inbox.
Automated systems may sometimes fail, marking as spam content that is perfectly legitimate. AOL at some point started to mark all MSFN board e-mail notifications as spam despite my unspamming each and every one of them for days, which eventually made me disable the spam "protection" completely - that is, "don't mess with my messages, I'll be the judge of what is and is not spam". And then I switched registration address to mail.com, over at MSFN, and now I'm getting all those notifications just fine. Thing that I would like to do here too.
That's about e-mail providers but automation - isn't it ironic to speak about automation failure here…? - may fail in any system, including this board's. What if one misses a legitimate and important message by accident, due to such failure? You say no human is reading those messages so nobody would know what's actually lost - except for the sender. Wordpress' Akismet also regularly throws legitimate messages from known users into Spam, but they have the decency to leave those messages there so the user could manually analyze and assess whether they really are unwanted. And no, I don't particularly care about reading spam, but certain information extracted from such messages could be of use in other contexts (forensic analysis).
So basically what I'd like - if/when other more important work is finished - is place a big red banner reading "SPAM" on such messages but leave them there for the user to decide. If only to eliminate the bad "WTF!?" sensation when you log in upon getting the notification e-mail only to find nothing in the inbox.