Apr 09 2008
Gmail spam problems
Gmail isn’t having the best time with spam right now.
Over the past month, anti-spam vendors have had to apply scrutiny to Gmail in a way they haven’t had to before (some actually outright blocking of Gmail).
It all began when Google’s bot-busting CAPTCHA for Gmail was defeated sometime in February. So spammers have started sending out their spam from Gmail accounts, causing problems for spam filtering services.
Then Google announced that they are removing the spam folder from Gmail all together per doobybrain.com (couldn’t find a mention of this on the Gmail page myself).
Then one of my friends on twitter complained that they are getting more spam than usual.
With the “spammers” constantly working on ways to “get around” the spam blockers, doesn’t seem to make sense to totally remove the spam folder. Plus, what about the occasional real item that ends up in spam.
While it is possible to get up to 99% accuracy on spam detection (as we have found) we have also found it is better to always allow the user some access to their emails for those every now and then mistakes.
Lets see what Gmail actually does here.
Original article on IDT Blog about email spam
