Gmail spam filter failures

I had come to trust Gmail’s spam filter so much that I never checked the spam folder. In fact, I had not checked it in several months - maybe even a year. But this evening I saw Cliff Hall’s post about Google spam-filtering itself, and decided I had better take a look. Sure enough, there were 4 or 5 non-spam messages in there. The unsettling part of this is that Gmail automatically deletes all spam after 30 days, so if there were any legitimate messages in there from more than 1 month ago, they are now gone forever.

If you sent me a message at some time in the past and didn’t get a response, now you know why. If you are like me and had learned to trust Gmail’s spam filter, then it’s time to quit trusting it.