I see I am not the only one with 30% errors in GMail Spam folder

30% is about what I have seen of late. I check frequently, and find 3 or sometimes 4 out of 10 send to purgatory in error. I have emailed the sender, added to my contacts to no avail. I thought is was odd.

(lets not turn this in to a fanboy discussion)
Linus Torvalds receives Linux kernel updates via email. He is enraged at the amount that Google Spam Filters move...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/17/linus_torvalds_vs_gmail_spam_filter/

 

No, you're not.

Unlike paper mail, with emails the receiver can actually realistically opt out by marking certain email addresses as spammers. Similarly, we can tweak and tune filters and do lots of other things to protect us, but these things only work if we actually know what to flag as spam. From a certain point of view, the internet is actually encouraging personal responsibility in that we all have an obligation to learn how to protect ourselves against phishers and spammers, and a large part of that is in learning how to spot a fake email when we see it. It's the internet version of not giving your home address to a complete stranger.

 

I can't remember the last time I had one sent to spam falsely in Gmail. I check it a couple of times a week, and there's never anything in there that's legit.

Comcast, on the other hand, flags 10 emails I need and lets through at least twice that many that should be.

 

I signed up for an Outlook.com account 18 months ago. I have not received a single email - spam or legit - in the spam folder. And that's without touching the spam filter settings. :-D