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Stats Say: Sticking With Gmail!

January 20, 2006 by Danny Sullivan

I decided that yesterday would be the last day of comparing how the three email services filter email. Dealing with one dose of spam is bad enough, but I’m stuffed counting three doses of it! More important, there’s little point for me, personally. Yahoo still catches far too little spam for me to consider going with it. SpamCop remains competitive with Gmail. However, with Gmail, I get the added advantage of a huge web-based archive of my mail. Going forward, I’m just going to focus on things I’d like to see changed in Gmail to make it better. But how about a last look at those stats?

Service 

Yahoo

 

Gmail

 

SpamCop

Inbox 

443

 

226

 

263

Spam 

167

 

399

 

364

False Match 

13

 

3

 

0

Total Mail 

623

 

625

 

627

% Spam Caught 

27%

 

64%

 

58%

% False Match 

8%

 

1%

 

0%

Spam 

180

 

402

 

364

Inbox 

226

MailWasher Spam 

47

Real Mail 

179

% Spam In Inbox 

21%

Overall, a great day for Gmail. I started whitelisting items yesterday, but that really didn’t do anything to the false match rate, which was already low to begin with.

Yahoo’s had the biggest false match rate. Whitelisting that I started yesterday there did help ensure that several newsletters normally nabbed as spam got through OK.

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