Okay, Google's Spam filtering false positives are getting really annoying

[jducoeur]

For the past week or so, Gmail has gotten *very* aggressive about dumping email from Yahoo users that are going through certain mailing lists into the Spam bucket. I assume that there is some technical reason for this (most likely, they've gotten more rigid about some email-authentication protocol that isn't working well when passing through the mailing lists), but it's getting bloody damned annoying: it's up to half a dozen false positives a day, and no real Spam that I've seen. Indeed, they're not even claiming that it *is* Spam -- they're just dumping it into the Spam folder with a message saying "we can't authenticate this".

Does anybody know of a way that those of us who can tell the difference between a phishing scam and a real email can tell them, "Yes, I know, whatever, just freaking knock it off"?

Comments

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

Probably related to this: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg87153.html

[asim.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the one I read about earlier this week; I've a couple of lists I'm on dealing with the fallout.

Oddly enough, however, my GMail isn't throwing the false positives. Not sure exactly why, but I do have two things I do that might help others:

1) Set up explicit filters for the mailing lists, and
2) Ensure you're marking any false positives in Spam as "Not Spam". This kicks them back into Inbox w/o filtering (itself annoying), but also hints to GMail to "knock it off".

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Basically Yahoo is accidentally killing their email business and breaking mailing lists as they do so

[jducoeur]

Ah -- yes, the timing's right. Special. And I suppose unsurprising: of all the majors, the odds of Yahoo doing something stupid are usually the best.

Thanks for the pointer...