GMail's spam filter SUCKS

[SuperSix]

BLATANT spam is going right theough their spam filter. Yahoo's is much better, even Outlooks works better than Gmail.

And I forwarded all of my personal accounts there. :|

 

[Chunkee]

user error

 

Originally posted by: SuperSix
BLATANT spam is going right theough their spam filter. Yahoo's is much better, even Outlooks works better than Gmail.

And I forwarded all of my personal accounts there. :|

Id have to agree.

 

[trmiv]

Yea, it's not that great. I used to forward my Yahoo mail account to my gmail account, but it had a hard time sorting the spam. Even some stuff that Yahoo had marked as spam, gmail wouldn't sort as spam.

 

[Chunkee]

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: SuperSix
BLATANT spam is going right theough their spam filter. Yahoo's is much better, even Outlooks works better than Gmail.

And I forwarded all of my personal accounts there. :|

Id have to agree.

you would

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: SuperSix
BLATANT spam is going right theough their spam filter. Yahoo's is much better, even Outlooks works better than Gmail.

And I forwarded all of my personal accounts there. :|

OH MY GOD IT'S A TRAVESTY. You paid all that money and you're hardly getting a service worthy of your spending! Call the cops!



...Good grief, guys.

 

[Oscar1613]

no spam gets thru on my gmail account

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: SuperSix
BLATANT spam is going right theough their spam filter. Yahoo's is much better, even Outlooks works better than Gmail.

And I forwarded all of my personal accounts there. :|

OH MY GOD IT'S A TRAVESTY. You paid all that money and you're hardly getting a service worthy of your spending! Call the cops!



...Good grief, guys.

If they weren't making money off of it in some way, they wouldn't be providing the service. Or they are banking on future profits. Either way, they are in business to make money.

 

Originally posted by: Chunkee

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: SuperSix
BLATANT spam is going right theough their spam filter. Yahoo's is much better, even Outlooks works better than Gmail.

And I forwarded all of my personal accounts there. :|

Id have to agree.

you would

I have no other choice.

 

[ShadowBlade]

it catches abt 20 spams a day for me
i think ive gotten like one spam since ive started Gmail (actually in my inbox)

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: SuperSix
BLATANT spam is going right theough their spam filter. Yahoo's is much better, even Outlooks works better than Gmail.

And I forwarded all of my personal accounts there. :|

OH MY GOD IT'S A TRAVESTY. You paid all that money and you're hardly getting a service worthy of your spending! Call the cops!



...Good grief, guys.

Oh sorry.. I shouldn't expect any level of competancy because it's free.

I may not pay for it, but Google didn't create the service for the good of the people, so I AM "paying" for it by simply using the service.

Yahoo = Free, good spam blocker
GMail = Free, crappy spam blocker.


And to the Non-meatheads..

Have you noticed it's gotten worse lately??

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Oscar1613
no spam gets thru on my gmail account

I concur

 

[monk3y]

Haven't had any problems with spam at all... Don't know what you're talking about.

 

[sniperruff]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: Oscar1613
no spam gets thru on my gmail account

I concur

 

[FleshLight]

My spam folder has like 6000 messages. About 1 or 2 of them get through daily, not too shabby.

 

[Wahsapa]

iv never had spam in my gmail, your weird

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: SuperSix
I may not pay for it, but Google didn't create the service for the good of the people, so I AM "paying" for it by simply using the service.

That's some highly spurious logic there...

Whether Google is profiting or not is irrelevant. _You_ are not paying them in any way, shape, or form. No money is going from your pockets and into Google's for the service. You are personally giving google nothing for the service.

As for the spam filters being better elsewhere, nobody's holding a gun to your head and saying you have to use GMail. If you don't like it, leave. There's no sunk cost involved since it's free.

ZV

 

[tami]

my gmail accounts are perfectly fine ... for now.

on the other hand, i have a rant about hotmail (which i use for most of my online buying since '99 -- i haven't really desired to switch to anything different). mail from email addresses on my Safe List (you know, the list where you authorize mail from specific email addresses to go directly to your inbox) keep going into my Junk Mail folder. can't they get these stupid things right?! :|

 

[Baked]

Did you know you can setup your own spam filters? :shocked:

 

[Triforceofcourage]

Gmail is still in Beta so quit your whining until it leaves beta and the spam filter still sucks

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: monk3y
Haven't had any problems with spam at all... Don't know what you're talking about.

Ditto.

 

[Zolty]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: Oscar1613
no spam gets thru on my gmail account

I concur

I get 1 or 2 a day on gmail
I get 10 - 15 a day on yahoo, but yahoo account is 8 years old

 

[computeerrgghh]

I never signed up for gay pr0n newsletters so I never got any spam on my gmail
As for yahoo... the mofos always send Yahoo affiliated stuff that you can't block as Spam!!!

 

[Noema]

3 mails in my spam folder in 3 months. No spam in the inbox whatsoever for me.

Gmail is teh r0xXx0rz my l33tz0rzz.

:thumbsup:

 

[gigapet]

thats funny i get .333333 spams a month since i got my gmail account