Just a thought. How would one legitimately send email about Viagra these days???..

[Locut0s]

What with all the spam filters running these days. A look at my Gmail spam folder shows a good 10 or 20 Viagra spams, most of which don't even spell out the word fully. What if you wanted to send up real medical info for even just converse with someone about it, most of your emails would end up in junk folders. Just a thought.

 

[RapidSnail]

I don't know much about spam filters, but don't they look at the address instead of or as well as the subject?

 

[bonkers325]

if you are in a position where u need real medical info, then you'd probably be better off seeing a real medical professional

 

[BrokenVisage]

Ju need sum Viagra, mang?

 

[Descartes]

Spam filters generally use more sophisticated algorithms (e.g. Bayesian method) to determine what goes in the junk folder. So, I doubt it would be a problem.

You could always just try it and see

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Descartes
Spam filters generally use more sophisticated algorithms (e.g. Bayesian method) to determine what goes in the junk folder. So, I doubt it would be a problem.

You could always just try it and see

There are simple and complext methods. One needs to know what spam filter they are using though to know whats going on.

There are usually several levels. The first is blocking any mail with a horrendous number of recipients. This is why many mailing lists have to be approved or end up blocked.

Then there is a list of known spam domains. If your filter maintains these they are outright denied.

Then there are known mails...whether it's subject lines or body.

Next would be the algorithms. These are more complex and can do false positives. It's these that are usually marked SPAM by the filter or if you use a third party repository you go there to check what's been blocked.

Normally only the crappiest filters would block a mail as spam due to a single word match like viagra.

 

[Gibsons]

I had a lot of trouble getting email to a friend of mine at his old workplace. One thing I figured out was that it would filter any email with the word "filter" in it.

 

[jonmcc33]

What, you have never downloaded a video card before?

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Gibsons
I had a lot of trouble getting email to a friend of mine at his old workplace. One thing I figured out was that it would filter any email with the word "filter" in it.

WTF kind of filter is that?

 

[Parasitic]

Originally posted by: Descartes
Spam filters generally use more sophisticated algorithms (e.g. Bayesian method) to determine what goes in the junk folder. So, I doubt it would be a problem.

You could always just try it and see

Actually the Bayesian method they use in spam filters isn't really sophisticated. "Naive Bayesian" is the keyword. Because of the limitations on the size of word list and decision matrices they assume independence from keywords.

 

[Squisher]

How does someone in Nigeria buy something off of ebay?

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Squisher
How does someone in Nigeria buy something off of ebay?

lol another good question.

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: Locut0s
What with all the spam filters running these days. A look at my Gmail spam folder shows a good 10 or 20 Viagra spams, most of which don't even spell out the word fully. What if you wanted to send up real medical info for even just converse with someone about it, most of your emails would end up in junk folders. Just a thought.

Sildenafil citrate.

 

[NanoStuff]

Mark them as spam. Google heuristics will be sure to take care of it.

 

[nanette1985]

I had a client with a similar problem back when I was doing web marketing. It was a big company that ran a competition, and needed to tell people that they had won a prize. The co. was based in some state that had very strict laws about actually giving prizes to winners.

They kept sending emails that said "congrats, you've won . . ." and most people just deleted them. We had a lot of fun coming up with emails that actually got responded to.