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How is spam an existential threat to email? Spam filters have gotten exceptionally good, to the point where I find it hard to believe that anyone using a decent
by fuzzmeister 15y ago
How is spam an existential threat to email? Spam filters have gotten exceptionally good, to the point where I find it hard to believe that anyone using a decent filter receives enough true spam in their inbox to make them stop using email altogether.
- dreamdu5t 15y agoIf you don't think so, please post your email here for us.
- fuzzmeister 15y agoMultiple of my email addresses posted online unmasked multiple times, so I certainly get spam. My point is that filters are quite effective.
- warp 15y agoI still get spam in my inbox regularly. I'm using google postini to do the filtering, in my situation I wouldn't classify it as "quite effective". Are there better alternatives I am not aware of?
- EGreg 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_techniques http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_techniques
- fuzzmeister 15y agoI use the default GMail filters - perhaps I'm just lucky and receive easily filtered spam. I get hundreds of spam messages per day, and none break through on the average day.
- prodigal_erik 15y agoHundreds a day sounds plausible. So with that much crap to wade through, how long does it take to finally discover and rescue false positives from the spam folder?
- kwis 15y agoThe spam filters today are good not because of magic, but because billions of dollars have been spent securing email. What a complete and utter waste of resources.
- KevinMS 15y agoUnseen cost of all that filtering. And for how long is it going to keep up with spammers? Oh and all the false positives that are a nightmare for so many legit uses.