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13th March 2007

Hitting spammers where it hurts-Use Report Spam Button Appropriately

posted in Google, Internet, Suggest, Tips |

Google team spends days and nights fighting spam. From stock spam to empty spam togoogle_report_spam.jpg you-won-the-lottery spam, they expend a lot of energy—human and machine—on keeping our inboxes clean.

When spam clogs our mailboxes, it's annoying.Gmail knows how much we love our clean inboxes.But even if Gmail can catch a lot of it, spammers will continue to send the spams in the hopes that someone else's filter will fail to catch them. It's so nice to see a root cause be addressed, as the SEC has done today, which will make the world a better place for both Gmail and non-Gmail users alike. wow .!

Brad Taylor, Gmail anti-spam engineer suggests

How can you help in the fight? Your most powerful tool is the "Report Spam" button. Use it early and often. That isn't just there to get the spammy message into the spam folder. It sends valuable information back to the spam team that helps us flag messages and senders so we can keep future messages out of your and millions of other inboxes.

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