Gmail

trick-r-treat · Junior Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 29

I love Google for a search engine, but I really can't use the gmail. I get more spam than anything else.

KellyD · Posted: 01.16.07, 10:22 am Post subject:

I only use my Gmail account for spam now lol. I opened a new Yahoo email address for my proper emails.

I had to delete over 10,000 spam mails out of Gmail the other day!

trick-r-treat · Junior Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 29

10,000! Wow! Isn't there anything they can do about that? I am sure they would want more people to use it?

aquariancore · Contributing User Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 165

I thought G-Mail was supposed to have a spam filter better designed than Yahoo's. Isn't there a setting?

reviewer · Junior Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 41

My spam filter through Gmail is MUCH better. Yes, you have to delete the spam (or let it time out, of course) but much, much fewer gets through to my inbox.

KellyD · Posted: 01.18.07, 11:22 am Post subject:

aquariancore · Contributing User Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 165

I have polled a few of my friends and they only once in a while get spam in their inbox. The do say that the spam GMail gets is much more than Yahoo

reviewer · Junior Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 41

An informal poll really doesn't prove anything - maybe they use Gmail on many more transactions and it gets out more.

aquariancore · Contributing User Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 165

One would think that people who use the utility regularly would have the best information.

reviewer · Junior Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 41

Sure, but if you poll 10 people, you're not getting a representative sample. If people are getting 10k spam messages, I really have to question how well they understand spam prevention anyway.

aquariancore · Contributing User Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 165

Icetray · Regular Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 50 Location: Sydney

I really prefer GMAIL to any other free e-mail services out there. Their functions (In built Gtalk, Spell checker, auto saved drafts etc) are simple amazing but I really thing that GMail supports SPAM. I keep gieeting tons of stories and other advertisments everyday. Currently hitting about 400 SPAM e-mails a day on average on all my accounts. (Some of which were never used for anything).

Then again, maybe that's how the pay for the 2G storage?

aquariancore · Contributing User Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 165

Rohitpatel · Regular Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 70 Location: Melbourne

I have Gmail account but I am unhapy with spam mails. But thanks to Google team that makes my work easy. They send only importnat mails to my inbox.

tcm9669 · Junior Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 30

Whats wrong with the Spam mail? they are moved into the spam folder automatically! I dont even care and then once in a while I just select "Delete forever" and they get deleted!