For some reason in the past few days GMail has not filtered out a couple hundred obvious spam messages. I have no idea how their spam filters work, but apparently the "Report as Spam" button is utterly useless. Every message has either "poker" or "debt" in the subject, and look very similar otherwise. Their algorithms must not be terribly good. A while back I was getting hundreds of viagra spam, which I would think would be a no-brainer for spam filters.

I hate to create filters on the off chance that someone sends me legit mail that happens to contain certain words in the subject.