Gmail - testing for spam
Published 4 years, 4 months ago in randomI’ve had a Gmail account for about a week now (thanks to Jeremy for the invite). I haven’t received a bit of spam yet, but I also haven’t published the address until today.
That being said, I also signed up for a new hotmail account last week on the same day that I set up my Gmail account, and already have too much spam in my hotmail account to use it (note: I haven’t published that email address anywhere either).
So. To date, with no public publishing of a hotmail.com address or a gmail.com address, I’ve gotten over 200 spams in my hotmail account and none in my gmail account.
So, I like gmail over hotmail, but I also own my own domains and thus don’t want to neccessarily use my @gmail.com address publicly.
I do however have a need to be able to get to my email through a webmail format, and I don’t neccessarily want to set up my own, so… I’d like to test the Gmail junk email filters…
Thus, I’m throwing this address out there to see how well the spam gets filtered:
Spam me. Send me forwards, email me, whatever.
If the spam stays at a minimum, I’ll likely start forwarding all of my email to that address… 1 Gig is a lot of storage space.
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I have found it sucks at spam filtering… At least compared to Spam Sieve. I have a feeling it will get much better (save them a ton of $$$ on disk space).
I’ve published my address, prattboy@gmail.com for people to spam me and have been keeping track of the results at http://gmail.prattboy.net/
So far results have been less than stellar, but we’ll see what happens!
I’ve been trying to get people to fill my gmail account up to its 1GB limit to see what happens. After a post on /. I received a flurry of so-so response and have it up to 180MB of email. During the process, I noticed that the SPAM filter in Gmail only picked up the really ‘well-known’ I AM PRIME-MINISTER OF NGUMBA type spam. Also, and potentially much more dangerous, although it let through about 15 emails from one email address, it suddenly moved any new messages to spam with no discernible reason as to why.
However, I do like Gmail okay. I invited myself to a second account that I will not be publishing. However, if you want to check it out look through the archives on my site and feel free to send more spam and large attachments to cksampleiii@gmail.com
If you want to keep using your own domain name email addys and filter them for spam, just make them autoforward to your gMail account. At least temporarily, just to check if it works. Then if you don’t like it, you can turn off autoforwarding of your domain accounts.
My gmail address was posted on a very popular site yesteray. The Nigerians found me today
Oh well. I did notice that the spam filter on Gmail claims to get better with time. Maybe it is baeysian and needs to be trained before it gets effective?
I’m not usually this far behind the times… I’d love to have an invite for Gmail testing. Thank you!!