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April 17, 2005
Update on GMail as your spam filter
Browsing through the GMail user help news group shows that I'm not the only have that has this idea. A couple of other people have done this and reporting good result.
I haven't experienced this myself, but apparently some people have problem with the spam filter, they reckon it's a bit flakey, whatever it is hopefully it'll be sorted out during this beta period.
I've came across 1 false negative and 2 false positive. I don't think the false positive is so much of a problem sicne both of them are newsletters, I can understand why GMail may consider them as spams.
One more thing worth noting, since GMail store your "sent mails" as part of the conversation in the Inbox, when you POP your emails, you'll download your all your sent emails as well (the one that you composed over the web interface), nice ...
Posted by vhadiant at April 17, 2005 09:45 AM
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