On Jan 29, 2008 9:20 PM, ropers  wrote:

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> On 30/01/2008, Ted Unangst  wrote:

> > awesome.  just discovered that gmail's spam filter is a fast learner.

> > by marking the first test emails spam, i haven't seen the other posts.

>

> I've always just clicked "Delete" instead. I don't acutally know

> Gmail's spam filter algorithm, but I've always avoided marking

> anything coming through via misc@ as spam, because I've a strong hunch

> that Gmail uses individual users' spam reporting data in future mail

> filtering for everybody. I'm afraid that if I were to mark anything

> sent to misc@ as spam, then Gmail might eventually stop delivering

> misc@ emails to me and everybody else. Maybe I'm overly careful, but

> it doesn't hurt much to click "Delete" instead of "Report spam".

Same here. I've always figured better safe than sorry.
Todd