Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Thu, 02 Nov: > On 02/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >ROTFL - What a great idea! Using gmail as a spam filter! Any idea if there > >is > >any restriction on using it this way? (Obviously they didn't anticipate > >this > >kind of usage, but I wonder if this breaks any of their published rules)
I'm quite sure they DID anticipate it, and don't mind doing a little work on your mail. in return they get a lot of valuable statistics on language structure, vocubulary and other things they need to make their engines better. Mind you, their spam filters are not that amazing though, I do get about 1-2 false positives a month and about 1-2 false negatives a week, though always image spams. > I have multiple gmail accounts, mostly to keep my anonymity. All of > them just have a >"forward all" filter to my "real" gmail account. and if you will look closely, when you send out from your mail, this may have set your "From:" header correctly, but it sends your main account in the envelope. some anonymity :) -- E-Z Rider(tm) Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
