Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Gmail Spam Filter Effectiveness

Spamfo.co.uk released a non-scientific report on the effectiveness of the Gmail spam filter. Here are some of the results from their February 7th to March 7th study:
  • Total Emails for Time Period: 404
  • Legit Emails: 66
  • Total Spam Emails: 327
  • Spam Correctly Identified: 312
  • Spam Not Identified: 15
  • Legit Mail Identified as Spam: 11

Of the 11 emails incorrectly identified as spam, they found that 9 of these were what most people would consider as “spammy” emails.

eINFO – a collection of articles and studies about email marketing.

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