Maybe Republicans should stop trying to scam us, then.
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2025
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Then what would make them Republicans? Just the bigotry?
Yeah, like in the good ol' days
Back when men were men. And women couldn’t vote.
And small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
https://workspace.google.com/blog/identity-and-security/an-overview-of-gmails-spam-filters
User feedback, such as when a user marks a certain email as spam or signals they want a sender’s emails in their inbox, is key to this filtering process, and our filters learn from user actions.
Maybe a lot of people just mark it as spam for some reason, wonder why that could be? Could it be because they simply don't like your emails and think they feel spammy? No, that couldn't be it, it has to be that the same company that kissed up to Trump also just hates republicans now for some reason! /s
Not letting me spam you is treading on me!!!!
I've had about enough of these fascist snowflakes.
If their staff weren't incompetent and understand SPF records, DKIM and DMARC, they wouldn't be flagged as spam. But when morons who don't understand the tech fail at using it, it's not the systems fault for identifying it as garbage. Source- me, 25 years supporting email systems.
Those don’t guarantee delivery. A known spam domain or IP, among a few other things, can also result in blocks.
And are also the sender's problem.
Yes, but flagging usually happens automatically and is not always your fault
Doesn't matter how competent you are, self hosting is impossible. This is one of those broken clock is right moments
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PSA: Don't use gmail. Sure, it is a good email and is free. And you may not care about privacy, even though you should. But the bigger danger is your e-mail being tied to your wider google and youtube account. Get banned for spamming youtube live chat, or writing "inappropriate" comment, or maybe for using ad-blocker in the future, and you can say goodbeye not just to your youtube account, but emails and drive data. This has already happend in the past, when youtube algorithm evaluated votening in livestream chat by sending 1 or 2 as spam and banned peoples entire google accounts.
This isn't about Republican officials using Gmail, it's about Republicans targeting Gmail addresses.
If you don't want to be identified as spam, don't send spammy content. Really that simple.
I am not telling that to republican politicians. There are clearly a lot of people who use gmail for republicans to care about it and I have seen people here worried gmail would stop respecting their filter settings. So I advise them to stop using gmail.
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Its not even a good email provider. It has horribly aggressive filtering and logging in through a proper client like thunderbid/k9mail always requires tedious extra steps.
I like the "tags instead of folders" approach though. It's been a while since I checked; can a normal IMAP-based account + email client like Thunderbird do that these days?
I havent used gmail in a while. By tags do you mean that you can add one or more custom tags to emails that you can then use to filter by? If so, yes Thunderbird does support that, but i assume its locally stored information. You can sync your thunderbird profile across devices tho.
Yes, like sorting mails into folders except they can be in more than one at a time. It'd be nice if IMAP were updated to support that sort of thing sync'd on the server.
Gotta say paying a little bit for my own domain and thus private email service is amazing. So so soooo much less spam and it's super easy to create a disposable address that can get mail from potential spammers.
Have any suggestions on a decent alternative?
I've heard discouraging stories about protonmail but would like a viable no hassle alternative if you have one.
Proton is ok, also tuta
I use tuta. You can also add your own domain for infinite addresses (great for managing spam).
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The better honor the filters I have set to keep that shit far from my inbox. I trust 3 week old gas station sushi more than any thing a republican can say.
Superb, fucking with the spam filters will make the transition away from gmail so much easier.
I could always use more excuses to de-google! XD
It's too bad. Postini is a terrific spam filter.
Lol. Send me the email. I'm not just going to filter it. Y'all are so bad at email I could reply all and tank your email chain with an all hands message of my asshole. Seriously, Republicans what even is this? If you don't want it marked as spam don't send it to people who don't want and didn't ask for it.
They damn well better continue to filter spam as spam. Republican political campaign emails are more like a chain letter than an actual advertisement.
and those spam filters get trained by people marking emails as spam. Its funny that they publicly just admitted that they are less popular than democrats from a source that cannot possibly have been biased.
I get three to five spam emails every day from Republican agents asking "Patriots" to send money to help defend against the woke liberals. They keep changing the subjects and domains sent from, so it is difficult to block them effectively.
The kicker is that I live in Canada, and have never lived in the US or been eligible to vote in a US election.
Only a few years since "but her emails[sic]" and now senators are conducting official business on a pubcloud mail provider.
That’s fine. My filters will just continue sending them to /dev/null.
"I got mine so screw everyone else" is a common Republican refrain.
There are things I can deal with and there are things I can not. I’m not about to waste precious resources worrying about things I can’t affect. I do my part when opportunity presents, but winter is coming, and Me and Mine are not yet prepared.
If you think you can change what is coming, then by all means, but I’ve got more pressing concerns at present.
There's a pretty big divide between failing to stop something like this and being fine with it. Democracy is hard to preserve sometimes and that sucks. But being fine with it eroding is another matter entirely.
I'm not American so I can't do anything about the FTC by design. I'm doing volunteer work for political parties in my own country that are helping to insulate and distance us from America instead.
About half the business related emails I get from my Secretary of State wouldn’t pass a spam filter. Their braynes are fucked.
But keep that shit and use AI to find incriminating.
The FTC will never demand money, make threats,
Uh...
Let's be honest: if Google's spam filters were biased they'd be filtering and suppressing Democrat emails, not Republican ones.
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