Dnia 10.01.2026 o godz. 11:23:56 Peter N. M. Hansteen via mailop pisze: > I've had some communication from people plausibly claiming to be close to the > actual developement and maintenance of the gmail codebase after I posted the > message that started this thread (and after I had already published the > current https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogposts/00_LATEST_ENTRY.html). > > My impression, or at least the way I read what was in that communication, is > that > > * It's a large code base that has been evolving over a *long* time > > * The system is complicated enough and with enough factors (in the hundreds) > involved that feeding the same message through the system several times is > likely to produce different results each time > > * The messages the system produces for external parties to see are unspecific > at best and may in fact point to factors other than those that actually > determined the pass/no pass decision > > * The code has passed through many hands, and I at least get the impression > that nobody currently there can honestly say they understand all aspects > of the system > > Despite all of this, they trust the system absolutely, claiming that it has > a negligible false positive rate. > > The last bit *I* at least thing is a delusion that is sustained by the fact > that they have made it pretty much impossible to file a problem report. It > likely is easier for paying customers, but the only way in I have found is > to post my gripes in public.
Thank you for confirming what already can be seen from the outside, without even having insight into the development process :) Just by looking at how the system works, one can basically come to the same conclusions ;) -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa [email protected] -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
