Re: New mailing list notice seen as "junk" by gmail

[Chris Babcock <cbabcock@...>]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alexandre Erwin Ittner
<alexandre@ittner.com.br> wrote:
> Does Gmail have some kind of whitelisting procedure for legit lists?
>

There are the bulk senders guidelines, but (as an admin of a play by
email game server) my observations indicate that Gmail applies content
filters a little differently than other web mail providers. Most mail
providers apply filters when mail enters the system. Once labeled as
Spam or accepted as not-Spam, that label is on that message until the
user changes it. Marking mail as Spam or not-Spam trains the filter,
but it doesn't affect decisions that have already been made. Gmail
seems to defer content filtering until a user access the account,
because it appears that flagging other users have done on by reading,
replying to or explicitly removing the Spam label has an affect on how
messages are tagged for later readers, even if the message that is
read later is sent earlier.

So legitimate lists get whitelisted by being read.

Chris Babcock
USAK Judge Keeper
Cure-ator of Schrödinger's Ham