Just mark the spam as spam. Gmail will catch on and "just take care of it".
Between Gmail's catching unwanted emails and sending them to spam, and my filters that delete unwanted emails before they get to spam, I never have unwanted emails in my inbox.
I don't either, and I don't have to create any filters to do something that GMail does automatically, and probably far more accurately than your filters will.
But, being somewhat OCD by nature, I always check my spam folder just in case something I did want ended up there. I average about four new messages per day in my spam box. I'm just trying to preempt those four messages, which I could do if I understood the "rules" that Gmail uses with their spam filters.
I don't understand you here. When you say "I average about four new messages," do you mean four spam messages? Because that's incredible! Or do you mean four false positives? Because that would be really bad, IMO.
Personally, I NEVER check my spam folder. I've also had approximately 2 spam messages appear in my GMail inbox in the last year. Even then, I'm just guessing, because I honestly don't remember the last time it happened. I have at least 12 email addresses all feeding into the same GMail account, and I really just do not get spam.
Doug, one more thing: what are you defining as spam? Is it just Viagra ads and the like? Or are you including things like emails from services you've signed up for?
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