[IP] more on Gmail flags AdWords settlement email as spam

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Synthesis: Law and Technology"  
<synthesis.law.and.technology@gmail.com>
Date: June 11, 2006 6:37:02 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: Ridgely Evers <revers@evers.org>
Subject: Re: [IP] Gmail flags AdWords settlement email as spam

Dave,

Since I got one as well and I have no website, let alone adwords I  
think it was a perfectly normal operation of their filters to flag  
this as spam.  How else would you classify such a mailing?

"Do no evil" ?  Perhaps, but "Jump to no conclusions"  should also  
apply, no?


On 6/11/06, David Farber <dave@farber.net> wrote:

Begin forwarded message:

From: Ridgely Evers <revers@evers.org >
Date: June 11, 2006 10:32:21 AM EDT
To: "'David Farber'" <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Gmail flags AdWords settlement email as spam

Dave,

You may already have caught this; I check my gmail account only
sporadically, so I just noticed this from May 20th.

The gmail spam filter flagged the Clicksettlement.com email notifying me
that I might be an eligible member of the class action. ("Important
Legal
Notice Regarding Your Google AdWords Account")

The Catch 22 is that AdWords now _requires_ that you use gmail as your
contact mechanism.

IOW, if I hadn't checked my gmail account (which I rarely do), and
specifically the Spam folder in it (which I do even more rarely) I would
never have known.

"Do no evil."

--Ridge





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