July 12, 2006

I don’t get much in the way of spam at my gmail accounts but I get ~10 a day on average. They do pretty good at filtering and only a few spam emails end up in my Inbox and only a couple real emails have ended up in my spam folder. But this feature is not a single click, they ask for confirmation, that’s two clicks. I can just as easy click the All, Delete forever, since I get so few. I could also just have Google purge the emails as they expire after 30 days. I have mentioned this before and I think there should either be a global on/off for confirmation dialogs or a check box on confirmations that say don’t ask me again. Anyways I guess for some this is a nice feature but it is not a single click and it doesn’t do anything for me personally.

Delete Gmail spam with a single click
This feature was mentioned last week over at ZDNet and it seems that it finally found it's way to my Gmail account. If you don't have it yet, keep an eye out because I just reclaimed 16 MB from my Gmail storage with a single click. It's not that amazing that I now have 16 MB of storage available to me again; I have plenty of free storage left. The phenomenal part is that there was actually 16 MB of spam to begin with! Bear in mind that Gmail automatically wipes out Spam that's older than 30 days, so that's 16 MB of crap in a month. Sheesh! I remember when my first 386 computer had a 20 MB hard drive, which means that 80% of that entire drive's capacity would be filled with junk! What a productivity waste to have to clean out spam...anyway, enjoy the new feature when you get it!
jkOnTheRun: Delete Gmail spam with a single click.
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