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		wahnfrieden on July 2, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Blames Email Problems On User "Confusion" They do have a spam filter, and it sends items to Other.

mayanksinghal on July 2, 2012 [–]

It is not a spam filter. I just checked my "Other" after days and found a mail that was not spam but from a old friend that I had not accepted as a friend yet. It is not 'detecting' spam but marking everything not-from-facebook as unimportant.

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