On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 11:16:27AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Agreed. But I'd take it from a slightly different perspective that splits > the issue. > > IMO the volume of spam has not abated, but its effectiveness has. > > I use gMail for a significant amount of my incoming mail, and it implements > a pretty aggressive spam filter. There are almost no false positives > getting through these days, but I do have to go into the spam mailbox every > few weeks to check for false negatives (maybe a few percent of the total, > non-critical stuff from a few read-only mailing lists) > > But the volume? Still as robust as ever. The old style sales calls, > solicitations for money and phishing schemes. The filters successfully and > consistently differentiate between real Interac eTransfer receipts and fake > ones. > > Yeah, I know the evils of Gmail. But every choice is a balance. In this > realm it does surprisingly well, and I'm less bothered by spam than ever. > But I wouldn't go as far as saying the phenomenon itself is dead, it's > still seeking out the newcomers and unaware.
Strangely I see almost no spam these days. I just checked my spam folder for this account, and the filter found 25 messages in the last week. Not very much really. It used to be much more. I don't think I see more than 1 message a day that the spam filter missed either. On gmail I think it is similar. Very few spam show up these days. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk