Has Google improved their spam filters?
For some reason I'm getting only one or two spam messages a day. I was beginning to worry. I mean, when your mailbox goes from 20 items in your spam filter to being virtually empty, you begin to wonder what happened. At first I thought maybe I had been declared dead or something. But that wouldn't matter to spammers, they'd just keep sending their notices for my heirs to discover.
Then I thought maybe my gmail account had been infected with the dread "one sock virus." But if that was happening, then why was it only taking my spam? Wait, maybe it was taking some of my other stuff too. How do you know that you didn't receive an important communication? Something may be draining off my emails but so far I haven't missed anything. At least I don't know that I've missed anything important. . . .
So, the way I figure it, the folks at Google must be trusting their filters enough to actively delete or divert all those notices from Nigeria about my noveau riche status. It makes me a little bit sad. Those emails – like the Publisher's Clearing House stamp packets before them – brought forth dreams of possibilities.
By the way, I did intend the pun about the virtually empty mailbox.
For some reason I'm getting only one or two spam messages a day. I was beginning to worry. I mean, when your mailbox goes from 20 items in your spam filter to being virtually empty, you begin to wonder what happened. At first I thought maybe I had been declared dead or something. But that wouldn't matter to spammers, they'd just keep sending their notices for my heirs to discover.
Then I thought maybe my gmail account had been infected with the dread "one sock virus." But if that was happening, then why was it only taking my spam? Wait, maybe it was taking some of my other stuff too. How do you know that you didn't receive an important communication? Something may be draining off my emails but so far I haven't missed anything. At least I don't know that I've missed anything important. . . .
So, the way I figure it, the folks at Google must be trusting their filters enough to actively delete or divert all those notices from Nigeria about my noveau riche status. It makes me a little bit sad. Those emails – like the Publisher's Clearing House stamp packets before them – brought forth dreams of possibilities.
By the way, I did intend the pun about the virtually empty mailbox.
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