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Overzealous and yet incompetent. Yahoo mail became unusable to me due to spam very quickly (I have a 4-letter Yahoo handle), and I'm not sure it's much better
by Thrymr 15y ago
Overzealous and yet incompetent. Yahoo mail became unusable to me due to spam very quickly (I have a 4-letter Yahoo handle), and I'm not sure it's much better now (I don't look at my account there often). Whereas Gmail blocked spam pretty efficiently from the beginning.
- kooshball 15y agoI see this kind of statement all the time from people and its just not a fair test. If you want to do a real test of the spam rates you must use the accounts in the same way. its a known fact that older accounts get more spam than newer ones. And who knows what services you have signed up before with your yahoo account that you didn't with your Gmail.
- eli 15y agoFair enough. But my Yahoo account spam filtering appears to get suffer roughly as many false positives as false negatives which actually makes it worthless.