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My gmail spam box just crossed 10,000 messages (10,060 right now) which is theoretically collected over a maximum 30 day period.

Am I ahead or behind the curve? Gmail is doing an amazingly good job of filtering spam, and it at least feels like very little of what hits my inbox is unsolicited, so I'm more awed than dismayed.

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  • ahead.
    :-)
  • I just checked my gmail spam folder. I have just over 1,000 - so you are clearly ahead of me (though my gmail account is fairly new). I will concede that their filter is pretty darn sharp with few false positives and even fewer false negatives.

    However, I still consider it a loss in the overall fight against spam. I say this because this filter does nothing to prevent the spam from being sent. We are all paying the cost of the spam being sent and evaluated. Sure the filter keeps us from having to deal

    • Filters may do nothing to curb the overall spam problem, but they sure do improve the SnR of my Inbox.

      Ultimately, the answer to the spam problem is hunting tags. Targets are numerous, so the tags should be fairly inexpensive.

      • Ultimately, the answer to the spam problem is hunting tags

        OK, I'll bite. I did a quick google search for ("hunting tags" +spam) and I got a bunch of websites about game hunting out west. I'm not sure what you're going for with this idea.

        Are you perhaps suggesting bounty hunting of some sort? I could see that being a popular diversion...

        • You have to buy tags (or win them in a lottery) to hunt deer, elk, whatever. Pretty sure that is what he meant.

          • You have put it succinctly. It's only half tongue-in-cheek; personal responsibility is what's missing here. The fact that you can hire someone to spam for you and claim that you paid them extra to follow the laws when clearly you should not have to do that and the only thing you should pay extra for is to get them to break the law, which is a MUCH more likely scenario than the other way around, is a bunch of horse shit. When a company does something illegal we should start at the top, and work our way down.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by unitron ( 5733 )

        The answer to spam is to replace email as we know it with a "sender pays" model.

  • You're ahead, I think. My gmail spam box has 1918 right now. I was surprised to see how many you have, since my got my gmail maybe a year after it was launched, and I have freely published my address on my web page, profiles, and mailing lists.

    For a long time my spam held steady at around 1,100-1,200. After those big spammer busts (last year?) it went down to ~900 for a number of months. A few months ago it started growing slowly, then faster, and hit over 2,000 a week or so ago, before dropping to the curr

  • Steady on ~1000 for about a year now, it's the false positives I'm worried about.

  • The reason I don't know is that I don't use gmail so have no way judge, but I have two email addys which attract nothing but spam, and I only visit those to see if it's the same old cheap pills and you know what, which it always is. But the one email addy that I actually use to talk to people never gets any spam at all, much to my delight and wonderment. So is that ahead or behind the curve?

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