Clearly, it is not Spam!
Posted by: Ryan on: June 12, 2008
I am angry. I attempted to send an email to Jacky earlier, which contained an attachment, and some brief text. It bounced back twice, and I was really confused until I got an auto-generated email from Google.
Apparently my email had been flagged as spam. Apparently, even though it was only sent to one person, it was flagged as spam.
I am not free to express myself in an email to one friend, because sexual content is censored as SPAM.
(By sexual content, I mean the sentence “and now I have a semi-permanent boner”)
I am not happy about this. I don’t mind that Google protects people from bulk mail outs. They provide instructions for how to ensure you can still send bulk mail.
However, I should be able to write whatever I want in an email to one person. What right has google to censor my emails?
I brought this up with my colleagues, and they seem to think that I should avoid sending emails with inappropriate content. The thing is though, it wasn’t inappropriate. The sender, the reciever, and the context means that it was perfectly acceptable to send that email.
Who is GOOGLE to decide?
8 Responses to "Clearly, it is not Spam!"
Yeah, I understand how it triggered the spam filter too, thats how I figured which words triggered it.
I would understand if it popped straight into the spam box at the other end… but not letting me even SEND IT?
Thats just evil.
*sigh* I guess they are assuming the recipient was a prude LOL. Which I’m TOTALLY not, as you well know. Incidentally, once you sent it to my hotmail account, it did wind up in my junk mail too. Even without the “boner”. Go figure.
I have started encrypting emails as text files attached to a simple email to friends when sensitive content is involved.
I have been using this: http://www.axantum.com/AxCrypt/
It’s free & seems to work well.
It is a shame to have to use things like this but ya gotta do what you gotta do!
Jacky: Yeah, I figured it would be in the junk mail, what with the *.jpg attachment. Maybe google thought it was pr0n! 
Arlene: It wasn’t sensitive content! It was just a boner!
Arlene: It wasn’t sensitive content! It was just a boner!
What, and boners aren’t sensitive?
Good one Nick!
ROFLMAO Nick!
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June 12, 2008 at 5:28 pm
That is really sucky…I can understand how the words “and now I have a semi-permanent boner” might trigger a spam filter, but you’re right in that surely an email with one recipient is unlikely to be spam. Unless spammer bots are sending emails one at a time now… ?