Gmail sucks - 1 comment

Well, another week, another 400 spam messages to my Gmail account. The killer, though, is that only about 80% of these were correctly identified as spam. The remaining 80-100 messages I had to manually remove from my Inbox.

Now, as I also have POP access (i.e. normal email client, rather than "web mail") to my Gmail account, all 400 will, at some point, have had to run the gauntlet of the spam filter of my Microsoft Entourage (Windows users: think "cross between Outlook and Outlook Express"). I doubt more than 1 or 2 messages made it through (when set to maximum), which works out at a 99% + detection rate. And only a handful of false positives.

Surely it's not beyond the brains of Google to at least match what the Microsoft applications can do (let alone solve the problem at source)? As far as I'm concerned, their system is unusable at the moment.