OT: which to use - email client or web-based email?

[Les Mikesell]

Derek Broughton wrote:
>
>> Well.... the GMail SPAM filter traps virtually 100% of the SPAM that
>> email address receives.  I use SpamAssassin and Bogofilter on my POP
>> email address, and combined they trap maybe half... if that of the
>> hundreds of messages per day.  I have gone through the motions of
>> attempting to train the filter, but I didn't see much improvement -
>> granted I didn't spend much time with it... on the other hand I have
>> to do nothing at all to get GMail to trap SPAM... GMail is the easy
>> way out :-)
> 
> I'm never sure about GMail.  Almost all my (real) mail comes through gmail,
> via pop.  I still trap hundreds of spams via bogofilter, but I haven't
> analyzed how much of that came through gmail and how much though my ISP.

If you want to check, log into gmail through the web interface and look 
in the spam folder.  I think they do a pretty good job - but they can 
probably do tricks like noticing that thousands of addresses are getting 
a copy of the same thing.

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   Les Mikesell
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