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Why do email providers have spam folder?

Email providers as yahoo and google etc....has been regarded as spam free but they do have a spam folder. Is it inevitable that they cannot do away with spam emails? And why is that you cannot make a filter for the spam folder but you can make one for the inbox where you receive proper emails?

Public Comments

1. I'm not really sure, probably to look cool and such. But I think the "spam free" means that anything sent to your account is labled as junk.
2. I have my own email site, with my own email server and some web clients I supply for the use of friend to whom I have given accounts. I have no anti-spam software running even though it would be simple to install a Bayesian filter which would get better over time. Anyway, I have an account which ONCE, ages ago, was given as a return address for clicking on a "Claim a Free Notebook" link. On that link I said NO to all the emails, claimed I did not want anything, and completed no offers, then disconnected without saying goodbye. I keep that account for job offers and I scan it regularly. I get 15-20 job inquiries a week, and about 1500 pieces of spam, ranging from "Canadian Pharmacies" based in China which I understand are very good with charging your credit card and giving you shipping info which appears genuine but never shows up at the local post office, to various nostrums for male enhancement, dating services, Nigerian Generals, Barristers, Professors, Bank Presidents, and relatives of dead dictators, get rich quick schemes working over the internet, the Wall Street Journal at 80% off, diet miracles, fuel from water miracles, and so on. Let's see, that makes about 99% SPAM. At one tine it was only 96%, but then I clicked a link that said "take me off this list", and I was taken off by the list runner, and put on 4 new ones that sold identical products from the same addresses with different company names. Be glad glad glad that most of that cruft is flushed away by the folks providing you FREE email accounts. I pay for mine, and I don't allow Postini or anything else on my server because I want to be free to identify sources of SPAM and remember them at Christmas time. Now if the US Coal supply just holds out... ;-}