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Whatever, I never get spam with Gmail.
How do you know Gmail doesn't misclassify valid mail as spam? This is what terrifies me about the thought of using a spam filter: false positives.
aside: for poor man's obfuscation (like in my HN profile) I do jhl805atgmaildotcom ... my belief is that this is hard to extract automatically.
A basic search also returns things like "XYZ(AT)gmail(DOT)com", "XYZ[at]gmail[dot]com" and xyz.at.gmail.dot.com . It returns everything, no matter how clever you think you are. And it's not that hard to write a regexp that replace this all into your actual email...
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When I used spam filtering I was receiving perhaps ten spams for every valid mail. This made it very difficult to scan my filtered mail. There was just so much of it.
When using Gmail I have a bunch of filters that make it easier to read through my spam mail. For instance: IF X email is in the spam folder AND contains any of the words (Cialis, Viagra, Rolex, etc...) -> Move it immediately to the trash. This cuts down the number of emails that stay in my spam folder by a huge margin, and makes it much easier to check for false positives. That being said, I no longer even bother che…
Whatever, I never get spam with Gmail.
How do you know Gmail doesn't misclassify valid mail as spam? This is what terrifies me about the thought of using a spam filter: false positives.
I haven't heard of any email harvesters getting around my Email Icon Generator (yes, it is the original!). Just enter your email and it gives you an image of your email address to link to. http://services.nexodyne.com/email/
Whatever, I never get spam with Gmail.
How do you know Gmail doesn't misclassify valid mail as spam? This is what terrifies me about the thought of using a spam filter: false positives.
Found one false positive in the last six months, and even that was a mailing list so didn't matter.
I like to say James2456 of Gmail it's the avant garde thing to do
Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I used spam filtering I was receiving perhaps ten spams for every valid mail. This made it very difficult to scan my filtered mail. There was just so much of it.
When using Gmail I have a bunch of filters that make it easier to read through my spam mail. For instance: IF X email is in the spam folder AND contains any of the words (Cialis, Viagra, Rolex, etc...) -> Move it immediately to the trash. This cuts down the number of emails that stay in my spam folder by a huge margin, and makes it much easier to check for false positives. That being said, I no longer even bother che…