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If email subject has "spam" as a sub-string, gmail doesn't consider it spam?

by gauravsc on 8/11/12, 5:34 AM with 2 comments

I have recently realized as a consequence of an email in my gmail account, that if you use spam in the email subject, gmail doesn't consider it a spam, when it actually is a spam and many other such emails from the same source have landed in the spam folder. Is that a flaw in the algorithm?
  • by stefek99 on 8/12/12, 10:15 PM

    How do you test it?

    In other words: how do you create email that would be otherwise recognised as a spam?

  • by shrughes on 8/11/12, 11:48 AM

    No, it's correct behavior that spam emails go into your inbox.