It’s amazing how many legitimate email is marked as spam by Gmail. It is now placing every email from the lath.in domain into it’s spam folders. It does not even see that the sender is in the contacts list of the Gmail mailbox since ages. This is just awful for me, as it means I cannot use my primary email address to send email to Gmail recipients.
If I was running a small business with an email address on my own domain, I might have been doomed. This shows how centralised systems are much more fragile to failure than distributed systems. Maybe I mean how monopoly in email has disastrous consequences.
Gmail has a support document that says:
“Also, each time you mark a message as ‘Not Spam,’ your Contacts list is automatically updated so that future messages from that sender are received in your inbox.” However, emails from me were going to the spam folder even after previous such messages were marked as ‘Not Spam’ by a user.
Searching in Google reveals posts from as far back as 2007, when many users were apparently receiving email from Google themselves in their spam folders.
This is pathetic for a product that was in beta for years, and initially had a very good spam filter. At this stage, one wonders why don’t they use SpamAssasin anyway.
Gmail is great for email with other Gmail users, but not for non-Gmail users. Great, we have just seen lock-in with email from your favourite web company, Google.
A few days ago somebody asked me a straight question. I replied with a logical and comprehensive answer. Now I realise that she just might have wanted a short answer which was appreciative, and my long answer might have been overkill.
This is weird. It was a simple question, there was a simple answer. But it didn’t meet social norms.
I wonder if this is because humans are not inherently logical. We make a lot of uninformed decisions. Many people even have arguments about things they don’t even know about. Many people speak incorrect information about something because they are unable to just say “I don’t know” or something similar.
Was this behaviour there when civilization first started and societies began to form? At that time, maybe people didn’t even thinking of making oneself informed — maybe there was no such thing. I guess the questions at the root of my thoughts is, why are we illogical? How did we become ignorant? What were the precipitating factors? When was this in the timeline of human history?
It seems to me that the nature of the universe excluding living beings is more simple than living beings itself. Simple, of course, is a slightly ambiguous term — something which is simple for a math major might be quite difficult for a biology major, and vice versa.
I wish humans were logical, but at the same time I realise that logical beings have not yet been able to discover new things by themselves[citation needed]. They also lack the emotion which makes us appreciate nature in general and amazes us when we see the sky at night. In the end, no, I only wish some specific traits of humans didn’t exist.
