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Yahoo! is adding initiatives to help cut down on the amount of email spam.
Spend half your day fighting spam? Yahoo! wants its email users to spend more of their day doing loftier pursuits. The company just announced new spam-fighting initiatives that will hopefully add a few extra minutes to your day.
According to Digital Trends, part of that plan includes a supercomputer of thousands of little computers. In a blog post, Yahoo! said:
“One way we’re turning up the heat on the spammers is by utilizing even more state-of-the-art technology. Recently, Yahoo!’s anti-spam team has been using a “supercomputer” consisting of thousands of individual PCs—part of our open source Hadoop project—to help detect spammers. We’re teamed up with several top universities on this research, looking for more ways to find and block the bad guys even faster, before they can do their damage.”
Other plans include incorporating some of Abaca’s spam-fighting technology. Finally, another initiative will include Return Path’s anti-spam feedback loop. That means when someone flags an email as spam, Yahoo! will notify the sender.
My Yahoo! account is dedicated to potential spammers. It’s always the one I give out when ordering gifts, signing up for email newsletters, and when in-store retailers ask for an address. This could get interesting.
Gmail has one HUGE problem that causes it to lag far behind Yahoo mail and Hotmail: Gmail does not allow you to block incoming emails - a feature that is a NECESSITY with the amount of spam most of us receive. Both Yahoo and Hotmail have this feature and it has cut the spam I receive to almost zero.
Tell me - what good is it that Gmail’s spam filter is good if I receive the same spam multiple times a day, every day of the year? If it has the word “viagra” in the subject line, I don’t want to see it at all - and that includes seeing it marked as spam.
I’s about time. Yahoo’s spam filter is one of the worst. Huge number of false positives and false negatives. They could learn a thing or two from Google. Gmail’s filter is one of the best I have seen so far.
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yes i agreed, Gmail spam filter is best in world. i hardly get any spam in my box, it is auto leaning spam filter. I left msn 2 years back, due to spam, slow and sluggish interface.
Gmail is fastest,innovative, you can search mails lightning fast in gmail, this is the mail reason that i am using it.
Now you can see on which IP your mail was used, you can find whether anybody know your password.
some lacking are .
Sorting is not there.
Manual spam filter is not there, but another filter option is there, you can use that to move your msg to the other folder