Remember when your legitimate emails were flanked by dozens of
grammatically nightmarish blurbs, peddling pills, x-rated
services, and Nigerian scams? If you use Gmail, most of that
garbage no longer arrives in your inbox, instead making its way
to a spam folder, where it's held for a month before ending its
journey at the Google graveyard. Now, Mountain View is applying
that same concept to your Google Voice calls, flagging
unsolicited calls, texts, and voicemails, then booting them to a
spam folder. The company's servers use collected data from other
users marking similar messages as spam, as well as propriety
identification tools, to help ensure that those generic creditor
or vacation sweepstakes calls never make it to your phone. And
like GMail messages, misdirected calls can be marked as "Not
Spam" from within the Spam folder, letting them slip through the
fence the next time around. GV users can simply check the box
next to "Global Spam filtering" on the Calls tab to activate the
feature, or hit up the