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It sounds good but ... ...it did not work out. 17 years later and spam is still annoying. I use ThunderBird and tag every spam message as spam. Still, some s
by TicklishTiger 8y ago
It sounds good but ...
...it did not work out.
17 years later and spam is still annoying. I use ThunderBird and tag every spam message as spam.
Still, some spam messages get through.
And because there are false positives sometimes, I always look through my spam folder before I empty it.
- coldtea 8y ago>17 years later and spam is still annoying. I use ThunderBird and tag every spam message as spam. With Gmail you hardly see any spam. >Still, some spam messages get through. Some? Back in the day it was in the hundreds every day if you were active online...
- detritus 8y agoGmail also dumps a lot of non-spam emails into its spam folders. The ones that drive me nuts (and have led me to having to sign up to fastmail for my business emails, rather than sending from my own shared server) are the ones that are valid responses to emails sent from GMail in the first place. Excellent logic (or lack thereof), Google. I don't actually believe so, but I have often wondered whether GMail has such an overly fastiduous spam filter simply to encourage people into its fold... .
- PakG1 8y agoSwitched from gmail because receiving too much spam. Part of the reason seems to be people using my generic name as a fake email address when they sign up for stuff, probably credit card promotions and the like. Wonder what it would be like if I used a custom domain with gmail. But not going back....
- stevekemp 8y agoIronically I run my own mail-server, and the majority of incoming spam I receive is routed through gmail.
- TicklishTiger 8y agoGmail can do that because they can see into the inboxes of many million of people. So if a mail is flagged as spam somewhere, it can use that info as a signal to classify it as spam in my inbox. That is not the content based plan for spam PG describes. And it comes at a cost. Complete loss of control over your inbox.
- zimpenfish 8y ago> Still, some spam messages get through. I believe spammers actively test their messages against things like SpamAssassin to sneak them through.
- shin_lao 8y agoI have a very different experience, I have only a couple of spams that don't end up in the spam folder. I do get promotional emails but when you unsubscribe they don't come back. I use Office 365 and Gmail. Both do a good job.