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.
