Gmail spam filter hard at work

Posted Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 11h52 in Personal

I usually use POP to access my various gmail accounts, so I rarely look at the spam folder, which is only available via their web interface. Just now I checked the online spam folder for one of my gmail accounts and saw that it’s been spammed 2822 times in the past 30 days. That’s roughly 4 spam emails every hour. I’m not sure if I should be impressed or dismayed.

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Comment from JZ on January 10, 2008 at 2:17 am

I dunno probably dismayed.My gmails never gets much (it’s sitting at 38 right now) and I’ve had my main one since inception of the service more or less.

I don’t know if it’s from your blog here or another I post at , but ever since I started giving out this email address it’s being getting railed.

Comment from stevec on January 10, 2008 at 12:46 pm

Ya, thankfully it’s not my main email account, which only has about 58 spam emails in the last 30 days. The account with 2822 spam emails is the one I use for most of my public online activity, like forums, newsgroups, online modchip stores, etc.

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