gmail stepped up the spam filter?

Discussion in 'Google' started by younghistorians, Aug 29, 2005.

  1. #1
    Has anyone noticed that Gmail has started to increase it's level of spam protection? I'm now getting alot more false positives than I did before. I've also noticed almost zero spam messages getting to my inbox, whereas I used to receive maybe 1-2 a week that made it to my inbox.

    Anyone else noticing this?
     
    younghistorians, Aug 29, 2005 IP
  2. debunked

    debunked Prominent Member

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    #2
    I havn't noticed a change. I keep getting spanish spam, but it is filtered.
     
    debunked, Aug 29, 2005 IP
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    I didn't notice any changes too. Spam is much less in gmail for me.
     
    webstop, Aug 29, 2005 IP
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    I'm new to gmail, but I like their spam filter. I don't mind checking for the false positives each day and moving them to the inbox. Better than an inbox full of spam, in my view.
     
    markhutch, Aug 30, 2005 IP
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    I haven't received yet a false positive, their spam filter rocks!
    I just love gmail
     
    fryman, Aug 30, 2005 IP
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    I have seen a few false positives and I have also had a few spam messages make it through their filter. For some reason I seem to be a magnet for russian spam, but over all I am extremely impressed with their filter.
     
    teamshop, Aug 30, 2005 IP
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    The false positives are very few for me. Usually, a forward from a family member that put too many addresses in the To: box or a news subscription with too many html links in the body. Easy enough to correct for future messages.
     
    markhutch, Sep 7, 2005 IP
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    It's really good for me too. I do get more false positives than spam that gets through, but it only tags the newsletters once in a while as spam, which is pretty normal for spam filters.

    Compared to any other spam filtering services or software I've tried, gmail's spam filtering is by far the best.
     
    dpak, Sep 7, 2005 IP
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    I actually noticed the same problem. A lot of my real mail all of a sudden started ending up in Spam folder. I had to go around and add a bunch of the sender addresses to my contacts to remedy this. In general, their Spam filter does rock
     
    Liminal, Sep 8, 2005 IP
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    hmm... it seems to be the opposite for me... i hardly ever get false positives but i've gotten spam getting into my inbox...
     
    daboss, Sep 8, 2005 IP
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    that actually happen to me too.. a lot of the mail ended up in the spam box
     
    junksampah, Sep 9, 2005 IP