[CS-FSLUG] Gmail spam handling

[Don Parris]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:38:34 -0500, Josiah Ritchie <jritchie at bible.edu> wrote:
> I've been pretty happy with it.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 21:55, David Aikema wrote:
> > I know that a number of people from the list have been using Gmail (I
> > even got my invite from Tim... thanks!), so I'm wondering if anyone
> > had any comments on how well it is at spam detection.
> >
> > Am I the only one who find them to be rather pitiful?  Of the 60 spam
> > that arrived at my Gmail account since yesterday, only 10 of these
> > were actually filtered into my spam folder (no false positives
> > though).
> >
> > Of the ones remaining in my inbox, probably at least half had been
> > marked as spam by spam-assasin (my gmail account is acting as
> > catch-all forwarding for a domain name I own, so all mail first goes
> > through spam-assasin there).  Might the fact that these emails are
> > routed first through this legitimate site be confusing gmail?
> >
> > David
> >
I don't recall having gotten spam since I signed up for gmail.  Of
course, I only use it for this list, and a few other private messages
with people I know in the free software community.  I've also only
been using gmail since just before joining this list - August?

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