That's not good enough in this case. The problem here, as I understood it, was that spam in the work email wasn't coming into the personal email in the first place, rendering the personal email incomplete. You would have to check all of the spam boxes.

Fair enough. The article is just titled to obnoxiously grab attention "Gmail is ruining your company!" instead of "Gmail forwarding doesn't always work" or something similar.

But hey, it's at the top of HN, so it must have worked.