4th of May 2006
Curbing Spam in Gmail
As BlueFrog appears to be dead in the water (pun only partially intended) I've had to resort to my old method of spam control: Filters. While GMail filters my spam automatically and does a splendid job of it, it annoys me slightly that it will put a number next to the spam folder which is the total number of unread messages in that folder. Like I'm going to read my spam. I know it's petty, but it irritates me. BlueFrog solved all that as it marked spam as read once it had been reported, thus saving me a job.
So now I've started to build up my list of email filters once again. One interesting thing to note since the whole spam-wars started is that spam is getting simpler to filter again, they're spending more time blasting millions of these emails out rather than trying to make them more difficult to filter. And so without further ado, here is a nice little list of filters you can put into GMail to filter out the current load of junk mail that is making its way through th system.
Matches: hoodia Do this: Skip Inbox, Delete
Matches: "free sex dating" Do this: Skip Inbox, Delete it
Matches: "cum pills here" Do this: Skip Inbox, Delete it
Matches: "get replica here" Do this: Skip Inbox, Delete it
Matches: "free live cam site" Do this: Skip Inbox, Delete it
Matches: "love enhancers" Do this: Skip Inbox, Delete it
Matches: re-finance Do this: Skip Inbox, Delete it
Matches: "Your Computer may have Spyware or Viruses" Do this: Skip Inbox, Delete it
These filters could potentially lead to false-positives depending on the kind of content you get in your emails, but in my case it's certainly not likely. These filters have reduced my spam in my spam folder from about 35 a day to 2.