Ars Technica

What's the best spam filtering program for idiots?

I get tons of people asking me this. The best program for me to reccomend to the average user is NOT the same program that us geeks would use. Personally, I use popfile, but that is way too ...
CNET

Google's Plan to Nix Spam Filters on Political Emails Approved

The Federal Election Commission greenlighted Google's controversial pilot program, which could mean a flood of spam in your inbox this election cycle. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News ...
Nextgov

FEC Approves Google’s Plan to Exempt Campaign Emails From Spam Filters

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Federal Election Commission voted 4-1 on Thursday to allow Google to proceed with a pilot program that would keep emails from ...
Yahoo

Inbox beware: Federal watchdog approves Google program to let campaigns skip spam filters

Political fundraising emails are notoriously a mix of over-exaggerations, routine misrepresentations and ALL CAP PLEAS. Relief is not on the way. The Federal Election Commission, the nation’s chief ...
Business Insider

Sick of political email spam? Gmail is offering a more prominent unsubscribe button to address all of our overburdened inboxes

Gmail users are getting new tools to opt out of a political email test program. Developers whipped up a "more prominent unsubscribe button" to offset spam filter changes. MAGA stoked the reevaluation ...
Fox Business

Republicans continue to slam Google for alleged email filter bias despite claimed effort to fix

Google is aiming to quell concerns about its alleged throttling of GOP political emails, but Republicans are not satisfied with the company's explanations. The controversy follows a study from North ...
The Washington Post

Google to stop exempting campaign email from automated spam detection

Google plans to discontinue a pilot program that allows political campaigns to evade its email spam filters, the latest round in the technology giant’s tussle with the GOP over online fundraising. The ...
Ars Technica

RNC loses complaint claiming Gmail spam filter is biased against Republicans

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has rejected a Republican National Committee (RNC) complaint claiming that Google violated US law by using Gmail’s spam filter on Republican campaign emails.
The Washington Post

Google gets green light to exempt campaign emails from spam detection

The Federal Election Commission on Thursday advised Google that a proposed pilot program allowing political campaigns to evade automated spam detection would not violate federal campaign finance law.
The Hill

Google launches program to let campaign emails bypass spam filters

Political campaigns can register to allow emails to bypass Gmail spam filters as part of a Google pilot program, the tech company said Tuesday. Google is starting with a “small number of campaigns” ...
CRN

Spam Attack? Bayesian Filters to the Rescue!

Spam today represents as much as 85% of all e-mail sent and received, according to the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union, up from approximately 35% just one year ago. Spam is a true global ...