Re: spam howto

[David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net>]

On 11/17/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
> In order to get rid of all the spam that I get due to posting to public
> archived mailing lists etc., I subscribe to mailing lists through a
> gmail account. Gmail spam filtering is quite effective and filters
> almost 95% of the spam. But the gmail web interface is not that great
> (no thread view, cannot easily delete emails etc.,). So I use pop
> functionality of gmail account and read these emails by using
> thunderbird (you can also use other email clients such as mutt etc.,)

Unfortunately gmail sends about 1/2 to 1/3 of my legitimate mail to
the spam folder. That number is lower recently, but is accurate up
until a few days ago at least. It may be because I'm using my own
domain instead of my gmail.com address, but I'm not sure. Basically
what I've been telling people is if you switch to gmail be prepared to
check the spam folder frequently.