"…use GMail and never worry about spam again"

[Historical Forums User]

This is a question for Chris, but I figured I would post it here for others who may be curious as well.

In talking about Enkoder in your article here you mention "use GMail and never worry about spam again." I don’t use Gmail, so I don’t know what you could mean. If you used a mailto email link on a page using a Gmail address, wouldn’t you end up getting hit by spammers?

[Flavia]

I’ve been a GMail user since the beginning or so, so I’ll pitch in my 2eurocents :)

In theory yes, you do, even with Gmail.
I get about a hundred spam messages a day, since I have my GMail address on my blog.
But here’s the trick: the spam goes all, and I mean exactly ALL, straight into the Spam folder, which is emptied every 30 days, and you don’t even get a glimpse of it unless you want to. I check every now and then to see if good mail has gone there by mistake but it happened only once.
I don’t know exactly what kind of algorithm they use to achieve this, but in some years of GMail usage, only a dozen spam messages have gotten trough.
So it’s probably a good choice for an email address you want to make "public".

[Historical Forums User]

Very cool, thanks for your responses! I will have to dust off my Gmail account and put it to use. :) I guess it makes sense that the company with the best search algorithm would have the best spam filter also.

@box Thanks for that tip. That sounds nifty, I’ll have to look into that.

[Nodster]

@box,

where is the free google aps, don’t see it on their site. Do you have link as it sounds an interesting solution to a nightmare i’m currently having.

Ta

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