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

by on January 16, 2006

in Email

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 considering I have no whitelist filters established on it.

Service

Yahoo

Gmail

SpamCop
Inbox

1097

517

377
Spam

398

991

1129
False Match

11

1

3
Total Mail

1506

1508

1509
% Spam Caught

26%

66%

75%
% False Match

3%

0.1%

0.3%
Spam

409

992

1132

What do the figures on the chart mean? See this page.

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Thinking of dropping your link spam? Consider this. Seriously, STOP & READ. The guy who runs Google's spam fighting team? I know him pretty well. In fact, it's sort of a joke between us to see what's the latest absurd link drop I can share. So if you want your site to be a poster child on his idiots wall -- and probably to encounter a Google penalty -- go ahead, drop your link. It's nofollow anyway, plus I do have built-in spam fighting and what gets past that usually gets nabbed in a few minutes to a few hours. So you got to ask yourself. Are you feeling lucky?

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