You wrote: >I now don't see the point >of having the spam folder
The Spam folder is both a safety feature and a convenience. It is a safety feature because it enables the rest of us to train our spam applications. During training, you can validate messages in the Spam folder as positive or false spam -- black list or white list. The Spam application learns from what you do. Without it, non-spam messages would end up in the Trash. What's wrong with that? Well, for the rest of us, we don't want to weed through pages of mail that we deliberately deleted, intermingled with all that mail that was placed in the trash by a Spam filter. You evidently get so few email messages that it doesn't matter to you, and that's fine. It's a convenience because providing the user with a pre-named folder for this holding area is much kinder than instructing the user, "Make your own folder. Call it whatever you want." Richard Hart
