* Posts by Cees de Groot

1 publicly visible post • joined 17 Jun 2007

Why is Hotmail so bad at spam?

Cees de Groot

Gmail is just as bad...

...because I gets loads and loads of spam in my inbox, all the basic stuff about erection pills, lottery wins, and stuff in chinese and whatnot. Granted, they filter out quite a bit but the stuff that they let through would be caught, AFAICT, by any basic SpamAssassin setup.

Apparently it depends more on what you do with your email address than who your provider is - Google seems to have little interest in catching these obvious spams, maybe that is because I don't click on their ads enough??

(and don't even start about "Google support". It's out there, I know it, just like the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the Invisible Pink Unicorn, and snowball throwing tournaments in Hell)