Gmail's spam filtering

[Boland, John]

i even get spam through gmail in russian!  it's almost always identified
as spam,  occasionally one will sneak into my inbox.

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From: discuss-bounces at blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at blu.org] On Behalf
Of Kristian Hermansen
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:01 PM
To: Tom Metro
Cc: L-blu
Subject: Re: Gmail's spam filtering

On 3/22/07, Tom Metro <blu at vl.com> wrote:
> Their technique is pretty simple, and essentially it does work as you 
> originally speculated before you found the paper. The technique can be

> summed up as:

Nice writeup :-)  I read the paper, but it's still good to hear someone
else's take on it...

> > However, Gmail catches them every time :-)
>
> I wouldn't say every time. But it does a darn good job. I primarily 
> use Gmail via POP, so it is inconvenient to reclassify messages, but 
> have done so on a few occasions - both for false positives and false 
> negatives. Perhaps a few times a quarter I'll get some spam. More 
> frequently for spam redistributed by mailing lists.

Statistically, for the amount of email I receive, I get SPAM from Gmail
0% of the time.  And even the SPAM I get is stuff that I usually signed
up for accidentally through proxy (online ordering, etc).  I would
estimate that I get 1 genuine SPAM message per month.  And this message
usually addresses me by name, and then goes into how much money I can
make if I would just fly to Zaire and accept the $4,000,000 deposit into
my bank account...
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Kristian Hermansen

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