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Yes, it does. I'm a bit confused though - I wasn't in question about that.

Let me clarify: I was wondering if pg's bayesian filter works so well that publishing his email address won't cause a bump in spam for him - since he seems to hide it (as I do mine). I was using Gmail as one example of bayesian filtering.

Mainly, I was gently suggesting it's better to not publish anyone's address here where it will get harvested.

BTW: When I think about it though, Gmail didn't work as well for me in the past.. but I don't know the cause of the improvement: it could be because I've been a lot more careful since then; or because Gmail has improved in general; or it's learnt for me specifically. I think a big factor is my old uni accounts stopped being diverted to it, and they used to catch a heap of spam. That's probably it.



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