Microsoft's Hotmail service managed to take the number one spot from Google in a very close finish, followed by Yahoo Mail and the unfiltered email account. All unsolicited emails that arrived in the inbox were countered as well. The researchers furthermore replied to spam email addresses, and created Facebook pages with the email addresses posted openly on the pages.Īfter some time, the ratio of spam to legitimate emails in the inbox, and not in the spam folder, were analyzed. The newly created email addresses were then posted on the web to get scraped by spam bots. The researchers created email accounts with those services, and one unfiltered account at a web hoster for comparison purposes. Until then though, users will receive spam fairly regularly in their inboxes.Ī recent study by Cascade Insights analyzed the spam blocking capabilities of Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Google Mail. Providers are currently working together to eliminate most of the spam once and for all. And while they managed to cut down significantly on spam in past years, there is still work to be done in that compartment. Email providers like Hotmail, Google Mail or Yahoo Mail are battling on the spam front ever since they opened their door for the first users. Spam is one of those things that you never can get rid of completely, it seems.
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