Do you check your spam?
I recently asked how often you check your spam in a poll. Almost half of you that replied said you checked it every day, so you didn’t miss anything. Only a third replied hardly ever or never, with the rest somewhere in between.
Both results are worrying. If you feel the need to check your spam so often, is it doing its job? If you don’t check your spam, what important emails could you have missed?
This weeks column is a discussion about spam filters and asks that all important question, are they worth it?
http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/columnists/do-you-check-your-spam-1-7175905
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I find Gmail’s filter pretty reliable at weeding out the true spam, but it has always amused me that it invariably dumps any emails I get from Google into the spam folder.
Yep. Gmail is good, but not infallible.
I voted “Every day”, but feel that “so I don’t miss anything” is a misinterpretation of why I do that. ;)
Actually, there are very few “good” mails sorted to my spam folder, probably <<1%. I could get away checking that folder once weekly, or even less.
If I did that, however, there would be a long list of perhaps a hundred or more mails. I would need to spend quite some time checking all their subject lines, probably even delete them one after the other so that I don’t lose my place in the long list.
If, on the other hand, I check daily, or even multiple times daily, I might have to deal with only a handful of mails. Few enough to instantly see whether they all are spam, or not.
So, bottom line: I’m checking often to spend less time overall on checking. :)
“So, bottom line: I’m checking often to spend less time overall on checking.”
Argh! It’s too early on a Monday morning for sentences like that Andreas Bartels ;)
#SorryNotSorry :D
I do know what you mean though. If you check it often, you only need to scan the first few emails in the list which takes seconds, as opposed to leaving it for ages and then having to spend a lot of time all in one chunk checking through your junk folder.
I always check daily as it takes a few minutes, then just delete. You never know that one email you want may just end up as spam.
I’m afraid that I only check my Spam folder when an expected email doesn’t arrive. It takes me enough time to wade through the Spam in my Inbox without also wading through my Spam box! I’ve just checked my Spam folder and as far as I can see it is just full of Spam – you know …. the click this dodgy link variety.