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Gmail's sweet spam-fighting record and how you can help

Oct 30, 2007 10:05

Google's spam engineers have just added a nice short blogpost here. It's a "state of the service" report, but it does show a very believable graph above on how little spam reaches us. Most importantly, though, they've a nice video at the bottom of the blogpost for those of us with ADHD.

The most important message: SELECT the spam in your inbox, and REPORT SPAM, and do your bit in the battle against spam. C'mon, if you care enough to buy organic food and use low carbon emission products, care enough to do this bit, too!

My own testimony: Gmail has made email usable again. It has saved our company from the drudgery of spending 30 minutes deleting spam everyday. I have 4,500 pieces of spam in my spambox and 6.25 hours of my life is saved by Gmail. Multiply that with the 50 guys I have in my office and that's substantial.

Yeah, you can go on and on about "REAL MEN DON'T USE SPAMKILLERS" in the same vein as "REAL MEN DRIVE MANUAL CARS" and "REAL MEN USE COMMAND LINE INTERFACE, NOT GUIs". But then if you use Windows at home what does that make you? A closet "not so real man"?

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Michael Tan is lucky enough not to have to choose between his job and his passion. He is the responsible for all aspects of developing new businesses and sourcing new productlines for a regional IT distribution company. He also oversees the company's legal affairs as General Counsel. In real life, he is a technology enthusiast, from both the fun and business viewpoint. The only choices he has to make are whether to play with his astro telescopes, his PC games, his Wii console, hit the track, tweak his car, or refine his biofilters, post his blogs, research for a new digicam, scour every forum to feed his habit further, play with his son… You can reach Michael at michaeltanyk@gmail.com ALL BLOGPOSTS ONLY REFLECT MICHAEL'S OPINIONS AND NOBODY ELSES'.