I was once a part of my state delegate’s bill reading group, as well as have talked with her about issues in the past. But now she emails me at my regular email address, not the tagged one I asked her to use. So I finally have filed a spam repor. Hopefully the postmaster -at- […]
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AOL users and list confirmations
Someone just signed up for a mailing list on my day job’s web site. Our system uses Mailman, which sends a confirmation email back to the email address given to get confirmation that the address should be added to the mailing list. An AOL user filed a spam complaint about the confirmation message. Now, that […]
PCMagazine is spamming?
I always register with a unique email address whenever I need to register somewhere. It makes it very easy to track spammers or other companies that choose to violate their privacy policy. Just today, I received an email from PC Magazine. They lie: “You indicated that you want to receive special Ziff Davis offers when […]
Gmail accuracy drops to nearly 7%
My gmail test account is filling up. 2,655 messages are in my Inbox; with 35,536 in my Spambox. Gmail left 6.95% of incoming messages in the Inbox. All messages coming into my account are spam from a dead domain created years ago.
Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail comparison update
I forwarded mail from my spam-collection domain to new accounts at Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail. Yahoo and Hotmail didn’t allow any spam at all to get into the Inbox. Of course, Hotmail had an easier time since they only accepted 926 messages, while Yahoo accepted 4,149. Gmail accepted 3,068, allowing 224 (7.30%) into the Inbox. […]
Comparing Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail
Derik suggested a comparison between Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo mail. Glad to oblige. Last night I set up virgin email accounts at each service. Then I redirected all mail from my spam ridden domain to each address. It’s been a looong time since I’ve used Yahoo or Hotmail, so I figured it would be interesting […]
Gmail Accuracy Now at 5%
After 1 day, 18 hours, Gmail has correctly tagged 9,819 messages as spam; and allowed 527 pieces into my Inbox. That is a 5.1% error rate. I’m also using 66Mb (2%) of my 2,686 Mb of storage space.
Gmail at 6%
After only 18 hours, Gmail has caught 3,930 messages and let through 267 messages. That is allowing about 6% of the spam through.
Hammering Gmail.com with spam
I have redirected email from a domain that gets nothing but 3,000+ pieces of spam a day to a new Gmail.com account. In the first 5 minutes, Gmail is batting 23 for 25. That is, it correctly identified 23 pieces of spam as spam, and incorrectly identified 2 pieces of spam as ham (not spam). […]
TV Channel Phone Annoyance
One of the local TV stations decided it was their right to annoy me by calling me at home for a “survey.” Luckily I wasn’t able to answer the phone to talk with their computer’s pre-recorded drivel. I have emailed their “Community Relations” department with a complaint about them not taking the high road by […]