Comments on: Gmail Team – Please Fix These First

By: Medical Transcriptionist

Medical Transcriptionist — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:19:26 +0000

I have set up alerts for porn and pharma related comments on my blog and for probable hacking attempts and many times I could find such alerts in my spam box of my gmail!

By: app

app — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:45:14 +0000

I wonder how many people will mark a newsletter as spam when they get tired of receiving it, rather than unsubscribing?Probably a lot more than you might think.

For some, that spam button serves as a quick unsubscribe button. Or a mass unsubscribe button if you change your mind and decide you don’t want the 20 newsletters you just signed up for.

It is much easier and faster to get the newsletters out of your inbox in bulk, for good, by selecting them all and hitting the spam button.

Lazy people don’t want to open each, visit a site, possibly have to enter an email address, in some cases have to remember a username & password…then they can be unsubscribed. It’s just too much thinking & clicking for some people.

That’s one of the reasons why newsletters that are obviously not spam will end up in spam folders.

While you are blaming Google, blame the lazy people, too.

By: fsbo

fsbo — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:06:25 +0000

Andy, you caught a good point here. I have never noticed my spam mails, i generally delete them without even looking at.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:17:27 +0000

Susan

You are the first person to admit to accidentally clicking on these links as well. I am glad I am not the only one who has done it, though I am sorry for the advertisers.

By: Suz

Suz — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:52:41 +0000

Apart from the spam thing – I’ve found it increasingly anoying to accidently click on google adds when I want to click on my email links! They need to figure out a way ASAP to fix that so that the mis-fire clicks don’t keep happening. Unless they’re doing it on purpose to charge more people for these accidental clicks…

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:39:53 +0000

Have you confirmed this with the Google team? If not, you’d better do something about it :)

By: Kelly Lowe

Kelly Lowe — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:46:01 +0000

I’ve suspected for sometime now that Google did not play by its own rules. I think your post has confirmed my suspicions!

By: Ajith Prasad Edassery

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:56:41 +0000

Hi,
So they are moving the Yahoo mail way is it? I am litterally pissed off with my Yahoo inbox as they have only 500 addresses that I can mark as SPAM. Wonder why can’t they provide some behavioral/pattern based SPAM filtering.

Regards,
Ajith

By: Vishnu

Vishnu — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:34:47 +0000

I am also experiencing something similar.. some of the mail I labeled to identify from other mail in inbox are getting delivered in to the spam folder.. Occasionally when some one send me an offline chat i was getting it twice.. in same chat window/ chat-mail alert..

By: Chris Lang

Chris Lang — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:06:43 +0000

I, even though I sell an email delivery infoproduct, tell all my subscribers that you should be using AWeber.

I have seen the reports, 97% of all outgoing AWeber email is delivered.

Even if you buy my $69 eBook, follow every strategy, implement everything and move to a dedicated server, you are NOT going to deliver %97 of your email. And you are not no matter who’s product you buy.

Also a dedicated IP address is going to be blocked for the first 6 months it is in operation because it is a new IP. Hotmail blocks you for 6 and AOL for 3.

Why would anyone else then worry about sending email any other way?

Wordpress for one thing. It sends emails, if you allow it, following comment threads.

If a visitor adds a misspelled email address that is real, then you send email to a hot address and you are labeled a spammer by the recipient. This is one of the problems with using Comment Relish.

If your reader misspells their email address you send spam.

Refer a friend scripts, IPN notifications and your own email address if you connect to your SMTP out email server on your domain all use your server to send mail.

As far as user whitelisting goes just use an instruction guide on the landing page whenever a user signs up to anything.

In fact I give the best one there is away free.

This will create user whitelist instructions for all the ISPs, mobile devices and most of the popular client side spam filters. This also includes things like Blackberries, SpamCop (used heavily by Microsoft) and more ISPs than previously included.

http://www.emaildeliveryjedi.com/email-whitelist.php

Use whitelisting still only goes so far today. Your overall Email Reputation is what matters. What affects it the most? Users clicking the spam button on you, so keep it inbounds.