{"id":284,"date":"2010-03-15T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/does-gmails-spam-filter-still-work\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T09:40:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T13:40:07","slug":"does-gmails-spam-filter-still-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/does-gmails-spam-filter-still-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Gmail&#8217;s Spam Filter Still Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 1em; width: 310px; display: block; float: right\" class=\"zemanta-img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Spammed-mail-folder.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; display: block; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none\" alt=\"An email box folder filled with spam messages\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/56\/Spammed-mail-folder.png\/300px-Spammed-mail-folder.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>     <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.8em\" class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Spammed-mail-folder.png\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have putting off writing this blog post for one reason or another (I\u2019m not really sure to be perfectly honest with you) but something today the question has popped into my head once again: Does Gmail&#8217;s spam filter still work? <\/p>\n<p>I went from getting one or two spam messages in my Inbox a month to my current state of several a day. If that wasn\u2019t aggravating enough, legitimate email such PayPal notifications concerning automatic subscription withdrawals or daily notifications for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadcrewcomic.com\/\">Road Crew web comic<\/a> are going to the Spam folder, while emails from someone called \u2018Pharmaceutical Sales Rep\u2019 are getting through.<\/p>\n<p>I would probably understand the Pharmaceutical Sales Rep message getting through if the subject line didn\u2019t include \u201cgets 77% off for all orders today\u201d and SEVEN previous messages with the phrase \u201cgets 77% off for all orders today\u201d hadn\u2019t just been sent straight to Spam.<\/p>\n<p>Catching every piece of spam is tough, as is avoiding <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Type I and type II errors\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Type_I_and_type_II_errors\" rel=\"wikipedia\">false positives<\/a>, but both are happening at an ever increasing rate and I have to wonder if <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\">Google<\/a>\u2019s preoccupation with rolling out new things such as <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Google Wave\" href=\"http:\/\/wave.google.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\">Wave<\/a>, Voice and Buzz aren\u2019t causing them to neglect perfecting their spam filter.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I just have to keep scrolling through offers for ED meds, Russian girls who want to meet me, overseas businessmen who have a totally legal proposition for me, hot <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Foreign exchange market\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foreign_exchange_market\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Forex<\/a> tips, offers on Acai Berry and Vertu (whatever in the hell that is) and of course, Master\u2019s Degrees I can get (overnight) just to make sure that I don\u2019t miss an email from PayPal telling me there is a problem with my account and my subscription has been automatically cancelled. 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