Gmail Decides That Gmail Messages Are Spam

Why?

Why?

Checking his spam folder, Richard was a little surprised at the reason that this mail service, Gmail, gave for tossing one message into the junk pile. How did they determine that he probably didn’t want this message? Well, because the return address was Gmail.com, and “[they’ve] found that lots of messages from gmail.com are spam.”

Or, at least, a lot of messages that say that their return addresses are gmail.com are spam.

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