{"id":791,"date":"2004-06-25T09:48:18","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T14:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/06\/25\/gmail-archiving-and-spam-aka-uce\/"},"modified":"2004-07-01T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T16:24:56","slug":"gmail-archiving-and-spam-aka-uce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/06\/25\/gmail-archiving-and-spam-aka-uce\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail, Archiving, and Spam (aka UCE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having long thought web mail a necessary evil, I am beginning to enjoy using Gmail, the recently introduced web mail application from <a href=\"http:www.google.com\">Google<\/a>.  Although I am not interested in it for my &#8220;personal&#8221; email, I have been routing most of my email discussions lists there.  It is nice to know that I can search for information that I once read via email, rather than having to use the limited search facilities provided by yahoogroups, for example.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been interested in the way that Gmail filters Spam.  If something spam-like ends up in the Inbox, I can mark it and click on a &#8220;Report spam&#8221; button.  (Did Google get a special dispensation from Hormel?  Or has Hormel decided to stop fighting this battle?) When I check the spam folder, I find not only those things that I have marked, but an accurate filtering of spam items I never saw in my inbox, including mail that discusses spam.  Drive-by spammers are not unusual on some of the art discussion lists which I frequent, and one spam will frequently lead to five posts condemning it, which seems rather pointless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having long thought web mail a necessary evil, I am beginning to enjoy using Gmail, the recently introduced web mail application from Google. Although I am not interested in it for my &#8220;personal&#8221; email, I have been routing most of my email discussions lists there. It is nice to know that I can search &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2004\/06\/25\/gmail-archiving-and-spam-aka-uce\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gmail, Archiving, and Spam (aka UCE)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnulinux","category-webtech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-cL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}