Comments on: GMail Spam Recipes http://nslog.com/2006/02/28/gmail_spam_recipes The Weblog of Erik J. Barzeski Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:10:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Vlad http://nslog.com/2006/02/28/gmail_spam_recipes#comment-46883 Vlad Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:23:39 +0000 http://nslog.com/2006/02/28/gmail_spam_recipes/#comment-46883 I don't want to get rid of the web clips but I DO want to get rid of those nauseating spam recipes :mad: . Any idea how to do that? I don't want to get rid of the web clips but I DO want to get rid of those nauseating spam recipes :mad: . Any idea how to do that?

]]> By: Peter Wood http://nslog.com/2006/02/28/gmail_spam_recipes#comment-18390 Peter Wood Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:01:55 +0000 http://nslog.com/2006/02/28/gmail_spam_recipes/#comment-18390 P.S. If you go into Settings -> Web Clips -> Show my web clips above the inbox, you can get rid of that ad bar entirely. P.S.

If you go into Settings -> Web Clips -> Show my web clips above the inbox, you can get rid of that ad bar entirely.

]]> By: Chris Bracken http://nslog.com/2006/02/28/gmail_spam_recipes#comment-18389 Chris Bracken Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:18:22 +0000 http://nslog.com/2006/02/28/gmail_spam_recipes/#comment-18389 It's good to see Google still has a sense of humour -- or some engineer snuck in an easter egg ;) It's good to see Google still has a sense of humour -- or some engineer snuck in an easter egg ;)

]]> By: Peter Wood http://nslog.com/2006/02/28/gmail_spam_recipes#comment-18388 Peter Wood Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:29:01 +0000 http://nslog.com/2006/02/28/gmail_spam_recipes/#comment-18388 I used to be pretty anal about keeping that folder clean, a habit carried over from my experience with desktop email. But eventually I learned to let go, at least in the case of Gmail. The spam folder gets purged automatically after 30 days, and items in the spam folder don't count towards my quota, so there's really no reason to delete them. Other than occasionally checking to see if there were false positives (rare), I never look in that folder. That being said, if you change the number of messages displayed from 50 to 100, then you should be able to roughly double the speed at which you can purge the spam folder. I am sure that Google could easily add this feature, but they're trying to enforce their ideal of not deleting anything by making it as hard as possible to delete. Heck, at first there wasn't even a way to permanently delete messages. And even after they added the delete feature, it wasn't easily accessible. Maybe some day they will realize that most users aren't interested in conforming to their model, and add the features that 'everyone else' has, like purging mailboxes... err... labels. I personally don't mind working within their model, but I think they should leave that choice to the user. I used to be pretty anal about keeping that folder clean, a habit carried over from my experience with desktop email. But eventually I learned to let go, at least in the case of Gmail. The spam folder gets purged automatically after 30 days, and items in the spam folder don't count towards my quota, so there's really no reason to delete them. Other than occasionally checking to see if there were false positives (rare), I never look in that folder.

That being said, if you change the number of messages displayed from 50 to 100, then you should be able to roughly double the speed at which you can purge the spam folder. I am sure that Google could easily add this feature, but they're trying to enforce their ideal of not deleting anything by making it as hard as possible to delete. Heck, at first there wasn't even a way to permanently delete messages. And even after they added the delete feature, it wasn't easily accessible. Maybe some day they will realize that most users aren't interested in conforming to their model, and add the features that 'everyone else' has, like purging mailboxes... err... labels. I personally don't mind working within their model, but I think they should leave that choice to the user.

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