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July 4

gmail and spam

I have been sending emails to some friends of mine with gmail accounts. For one of them, the emails started being rejected as spam 2 or 3 months ago, but he did something that eventually resolved it. Today the same friend and a second one both had emails rejected.

I get a reply from my isp: (Real names and numbers replaced by *)

<*********@gmail.com>:
***.***.***.** failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 550-5.7.1 [209.68.3.220      12] Our system has detected that this message is
550-5.7.1 likely unsolicited mail. To reduce the amount of spam sent to Gmail,
550-5.7.1 this message has been blocked. Please visit
550 5.7.1  https://support.google.com/mail/answer/188131 for more information. j130si13215964qhc.51 - gsmtp

The message isn't spam. My account hasn't sent spam. Is there anything I can do about this? The 188131 help file is unhelpful, appearing to say "don't spam". -- SGBailey (talk) 07:03, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Can you tell us the title ? That might explain why they think it's spam. StuRat (talk) 02:49, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This question reminds me of Steve Baker's email trouble last year. I don't know if he actually obtained any resolution. The reality is, big companies can afford to chase down spam filter errors; little guys (like small businesses and individual users) must live with some false-positives. Sometimes, Google will block your email, and unless you can afford the time and money to chase down the technical error every time, and force them to fix the issue, you must simply accept their spam filter policy.

Here's what the Free Software Foundation has to say about server-side software (like spam filters that run on Google's servers): Who does that server really serve? "With SaaSS, the users do not have even the executable file that does their computing: it is on someone else's server, where the users can't see or touch it. Thus it is impossible for them to ascertain what it really does, and impossible to change it."

In other words, everybody could run spam filtering (in fact, they can run all the software to operate their entire email infrastructure!) on their own local machine using free software. But few people do this: Gmail is too easy and they entice users into their service. Proprietary service vendors provide nice value-adds, like high reliability and free spam-filtering: but in exchange, you may never open up their black-box. The "benevolent service provider" has gained complete control over your email.

Nimur (talk)

So you are saying there is nothing I can do... -- SGBailey (talk) 06:12, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You can invest loads and loads of time into your own email service. However, you have to keep in mind that email servers are not easy to manage, at least not securily. Besides the problem above, you could also have many security issues, unless you are working full-time to deal with them. And even then, your email server might be cracked by someone and used for sending spam mail. Indeed, it might be the case that your emails are tagged as spam because someone did exactly that. --YX-1000A (talk) 15:47, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Does such a program exist?

Suppose I have a set of picture files. I want to be able to see to another picture by clicking a certain area on a certain other picture (or pictures), offline. Kind of like how annotation on YouTube videos work. Is there a program that does that? In short, I want a set of inter-linked jpeg files. Seems like a simple thing so I thought maybe it's possible that there is such a program.

(The reason for this is that I write notes, by hand, in Photoshop (using a drawing pad), and I want my notes to be connected. I don't want to use another method for writing notes because there's already lots of notes written this way and I like it this way)--Irrational number (talk) 20:45, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The HTML <area> Tag has some of the functionality you ask for, but that would require you to place the images in a HTML document. AFAIK the JPEG specification don't contain any way to make links in the picture - something a quick look online seems to verify 1 2.

Off topic; that is one way of taking notes I've not heard about before. I'm happy it works for you, even if it wouldn't work for me - my handwriting is pretty sloppy =) WegianWarrior (talk) 21:32, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Using the HTML area tag isn't so easy, it takes a lot of work to set each pic up like that. Instead, you might just create a copy of the pic and write your notes on top of the copy, using Microsoft Paint or some other program. You could circle an object and write it's name, for example. (You could also do this using layers, but that might again get complicated.) You could name your two versions pic0001 and pic0001_annotated, for example. StuRat (talk) 02:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The closest thing I've seen is a WYSIWYG web editor. You will need to make a web page for each JPG - a page that just contains the JPG. Then, assuming your editor supports image maps, you add an image map layer to the JPG. Now, the editor will have some sort of tool to mark a section of the image and enter a link name - which will be the HTML document containing a different JPG. 199.15.144.250 (talk) 11:34, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]