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Spam Filtering Test Continues — Stats & Preparing To Test Whitelists

by on January 18, 2006

in Email

First, a big hello to all of you who may have surfed in from Jeremy’s kind link about my test! Yesterday’s stats put Gmail into the lead with me. More on that in a moment, but I wanted to talk about what I’m testing next. I said at the beginning of my stat gathering exercise [...]

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SpamCop, Yahoo & Gmail Spam Filtering Stats: Jan 16, 2006

by on January 17, 2006

in Email

Here’s the latest installment in my series on how SpamCop, Gmail & Yahoo handle email spam. For previous posts on this topic, see my Email category. Below is the summary of mail received yesterday from around 10:30am Monday, Jan. 16 through the same time Tuesday, January 18, an entire day. SpamCop is still the leader, [...]

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SpamCop, Yahoo & Gmail Spam Filtering Stats: Jan 13-15, 2006

by on January 16, 2006

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I’m continuing on with my earlier look at how SpamCop, Yahoo & Gmail all handle spam fighting. Here’s the rundown for the mail received yesterday from around 10:30am Friday, Jan. 13 through Monday, January 16, 2006. That’s three entire days. SpamCop continues to be the leader, but Gmail puts in a very impressive performance, especially [...]

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Email & Spam Filtering Stats: Jan 12, 2006

by on January 13, 2006

in Email

I wrote earlier that I hoped to do some side-by-side looks at how SpamCop, Yahoo & Gmail all handle spam fighting. Here’s the rundown for the mail received yesterday from around 12:30pm UK time to 10:30am today, with the summary being that SpamCop captures the most spam with the least amount of false matches. But [...]

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Moving From SpamCop To Gmail & Loving POP Download With Archiving

by on January 12, 2006

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I moved my primary mail account from SpamCop to Gmail earlier this week. I’m a long-time SpamCop user, but Gmail may have won me over purely because of the storage issue combined with spam fighting. Here’s a rundown on why I made the move, plus how the two compare and making use of Gmail as [...]

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