John, he's not referring to simple static text pattern or regex based rules. He's referring to heuristic textual analysis that ranks and routes email by content. It can deal with mail from senders you've never heard from before. It's based on the same technology that they use to detect spam but repurposed to categorize it (where one of the sub-categories is "spam").
Back when I was building mail routers for a firewall company we were working on such a system based on Bayesian statistics. It could reliably detect spam but it could also broadly categorize email, though much less reliably than spotting spam. Google has the design chops to get that right and they are rolling that tech out now. On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:13 PM, John Coyle <jco...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > I find the Google spokesman's attitude patronising and inaccurate - it seems > he hasn't really > checked what can be done in other email clients. I have no problem in > routing incoming messages via > rules set in MS Outlook, so that emails from the PDML, for example, are sent > to a specific folder > without my having to do anything. Same for my business accounts - they're > organised the way I want > them, not the way Google might think I want them. > > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker > Sent: Friday, 6 September 2013 11:54 PM > To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List > Subject: OT: the end of email as we know it > > Apropos of all the email meta threads around here lately, and because it's > Friday. This article > certainly describes my own experience. > Posting this from my Gmail browser tab. :-) > > http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/the-end-of-email-as-we-know-it > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
