Gmail is now up to 127MBs (with 2176 emails), thanks to someone helpful who wrote a server script that has been forwarding game logs from a game server to the account. Also, since they are text-based logs rather than attachments, the ad-bots are scanning it and serving up adverts about gaming. None of this has been caught by Gmail’s spam filter. One person who sent about 15 emails to the account had the last 5 blocked by Gmail’s spam filter and the first ten went through fine. Not really sure what the rule is that caused that. Seems like odd behavior to me. I did actually receive one honest to goodness spam courtesy of some little spambot crawling this site, and it has been caught and delivered to the spam folder properly. So, it’s a bit too early to tell, but it looks like Gmail’s spam filters may err on the side of being overly-protective. Gmail catches at least some spam, so that’s a +1, but it is overzealous, so that’s a -1. So no progress today. Gmail still at -2.
SpyMac is still dog slow with emails that were sent a day ago suddenly popping up. Nothing has been filtered as spam. Even the same bona-fide spam message that Gmail caught is sitting there unperturbed in the normal inbox. And it is still only at 27MB. I cannot tell if this is b/c people are sending stuff to Gmail and ignoring SpyMac, or if SpyMac simply is sooooo slow and far behind in processing my mail that the other 100MBs of mail that Gmail has over on SpyMac is still floating out there somewhere amidst all the ones and zeros. SpyMac loses another point for not catching actual spam: -1. Total SpyMac score = -4.
So far, both services are losing. But, here’s an interesting read about why the idea of Gmail being a bit of privacy-stealing evil is hyperbolic and silly. Check it out.
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