Spam Reduction
When I first started using Googlemail I assiduously checked the spam folder once or twice per day and deleted all the junk, keeping things neat and tidy and burning up some more time.
After a month or two I realised two things. First, I hardly ever saw a false positive (a message that shouldn't have been in there). Second, although the storage space wasn't infinite, it was increasing all the time and I had plenty of headroom. Therefore, I stopped deleting spam messages and left them to be automatically deleted after a month. If I got word that a message had gone missing, that would give me a month's grace to look.
The number of spam messages climbed to over 1,000 and then stayed constant for some time. However, I have just noticed that it has decreased now to about 650 messages. Does that mean that, somewhere out there on the Internet, the war against spam is slowly being won?
It is a nice thought although I will hold my judgement for just a little while longer!
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