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I honestly don’t know if I should be feeling happy and having utter confidence in Gmail, or worrying this as an encouragement to spammers.

Gmail seems to believe they have done a great achievement in The mail you want, not the spam you don’t:

In fact, less than 0.1% of email in the average Gmail inbox is spam, and the amount of wanted mail landing in the spam folder is even lower, at under 0.05%. [emphasis added]

Back in 2012, I woke up to 3 spams one morning, and even marked as Important, you will have to forgive me not trusting when this new post saying:

the spam filter now uses an artificial neural network to detect and block the especially sneaky spam—the kind that could actually pass for wanted mail.

Yes, “artificial neural network,” I got that part and I did notice that I saw no spams in my inbox recently. However, this June 5th, someone I met on GitHub emailed me, and his mail got sorted into Spam folder by Gmail. Let’s just hope that was an result an old whatever Gmail was using.

I always check Spam folder, that’s not for no reasons. Interestingly, I don’t actually look for mis-marked emails, believe me or not, I intentionally look for spams which are showing some kind of humor to brighten up my day.

Is 0.1% a tiny number? In my opinion, it’s sad that Gmail even sounds as if they believe so in the post. It’s one spam per 1,000 emails. I did a search for emails received within 1 month period, and I had archived 181 emails. I probably deleted half of received emails, which were notifications from all sorts of websites.

How would spammers react to this “less than 0.1%”? Well, I think even if it was 0.01%, they would probably throw a party to celebrate. It doesn’t matter if all the spams get detected and are sent to Spam folder, there are delivered to the account, instead of blocked. As long as there is a chance that a user might have a glance at the subjects, spammers will continue, because Google has their whatsoever “neural network,” spammers have their massive spamming monsters. Either side requires no human brains — Oh, wait! We do get Report spam” option and “Not spam” button.

The only actually working solution for stopping and fighting against spams is to have no need of Spam folder. In this time of period, that’s hope Google’s “green”-minded wouldn’t spend a lot of energy just to put spams into right place where no wanted emails will be seen.

By the way, recently, a new species is discovered almost on everywhere of the surface of our planet. It’s a fascinating animal, usually spending most of their time staring at screen as you are doing, but the most special or unique of this new kind is, occasionally, less than 0.1%, they might do this strange behavior as seen in the picture below.

I Can’t See You… by Peter [CC-BY-SA 2.0]

Scientists have yet to determine the cause and purpose of this behavior, however, it’s to believe that this behavior serve as some sort of protection mechanism in order to fend off unwanted attention from among the same species.

Passive is a new species of Ostrich, also known as Human.