On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:43 AM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob La Quey wrote: > >.. > > I _never_ get any spam in my GMail account. Well maybe once > > a week. > > > > Well I take that back. I subscribed to a mailing list for about a > > week that was heavily battered by spam and so I got that. The > > irony is that the mailinglist beloned to a google group run by > > google themselves. I simply quit that list. No more spam. > > > > How many false positives are occurring? How much legitimate > > mail am I missing? I have no idea. > > > > My GMail address is all over the place. I use it indiscriminately, > > but it seems not to generate a lot of spam. Maybe the spammers > > realize GMail addresses are a waste of time. > > I thought gmail did aggressive spam filtering for you. Is there not some > place where they hold (for 1 day/week/?) it for you to review what they > marked as spam?> > I have 543 messages in my Spam folder. Maybe 5 were false positives, i.e. messages I would normally look at. My point (not well made) was that because gmail does a good job of spam filtering I do not ever worry about it. > > How about the rest of you? > > I get a few ~(10 +/- 10) a day. T'bird marks things for me (with maybe > about 90% success and tiny amount of false positives) but I read every > sender/subject before disposing of those marked. I _think_ the training > amounts to me unmarking false positives and specifically marking missed > spam -- which is pretty painless effort on my part. > > Regards, > ..jim I do not have a lot of time to devote to training a spam filter so I go with GMail's default system. It seems to work fine for me. I probably go through a few hundred emails a day. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
