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Pensacola, FL | I rarely get spam on Gmail On ISP or Yahoo, I get a ton. | |
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| Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail said by supergirl  :On ISP or Yahoo, I get a ton. Me either. Gmail's spam filters really do an excellent job of identifying and blocking spam. Only about 2 or 3 per week make it in to my inbox. | |
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Matt
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| said by supergirl :On ISP or Yahoo, I get a ton. Right, but I think the point of the article was not whether they make it to your Inbox, but that only 5%-10% of the email traversing the Internet is legitimate email.
Our spam filter daily report show we outright reject 51% of the total connection attempts each day, then only delivers about 50% of the email that isn't outright rejected due to the email not passing other levels of the spam filter.
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| Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail I agree... just because few spam messages make it to your inbox (vs. junk/spam box) doesn't mean that spam messages aren't out there. I suspect that since spam filters / junk mailboxes are oout there, spammers send more messages, in an attempt to have a few get through.
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Cyberspace | Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail That's the jist of the article I got out of it. My only comment is that I noticed this a couple of years ago and isn't anything new to those who deal with the primary level of transactions. | |
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Lake Zurich, IL | Sounds about typical - one site I manage rejected 67% up front and then shitcanned about 25% of the remainder. | |
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| said by Karl Bode :spam email accounted for 90 to 95 percent of all email in 2007 I wouldn't know... I never see any of it on my Gmail account. About twice a month I get an email from a highly respected barrister saying that a distant relative of mine has died and left me a few million Naira, but that's about it. So pretty soon I should be filthy rich AND spam free!
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NormanS
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San Jose, CA | About 97% of the spam to my Yahoo! and ISP accounts winds up in the "Bulk" folder.
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LilYoda
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| You know what's weird?
I got a gmail about a year and a half ago (had had an invite sitting in my yahoo mail for a while)
I've never used it. ever! I've never sent a single email with it, and forgot about it.
When I go back to it now, I see 12 spams in the inbox, and 296 in the spam folder. I'd find it surprising that I'm the only gmail user whose email was sold to spam outfits by google,  so I have no idea how the *$@! this email got added to spam lists (when none of my other emails have).
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| Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail said by LilYoda :You know what's weird? I got a gmail about a year and a half ago (had had an invite sitting in my yahoo mail for a while) I've never used it. ever! I've never sent a single email with it, and forgot about it. When I go back to it now, I see 12 spams in the inbox, and 296 in the spam folder. I'd find it surprising that I'm the only gmail user whose email was sold to spam outfits by google, so I have no idea how the *$@! this email got added to spam lists (when none of my other emails have). I doubt Google sold it to spam outfits, lol. You have a common email address that the spammers just guessed, or you signed up for pr0n after one too many and don't remember. 
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LilYoda
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2 edits | Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail They might have guessed it. Now let's assume my name is John Doe. I wonder why john.doe@gmail.com is infested, and not john_doe@yahoo.fr, which is my main address.
Maybe email generators aren't clever enough to handle the underscore, or domains that end in something else than .com
And regarding pr0n outfits, I always sign up as "Unotgonnaget@myemail.com", or something similar 
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| Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail said by LilYoda :Maybe email generators aren't clever enough to handle the underscore, or domains that end in something else than .com Yep, that last is probably it. No one said spammers are thorough. | |
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| NormanS
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San Jose, CA
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| I just checked my Gmail account "Spam" folder:
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Hooray, no spam here!
The only time I saw a wad of spam in that folder was when I was forwarding one of my 'pacbell.net' sub accounts to the Gmail account. I can't recall why I was doing it; testing something, or other. But it isn't my normal M.O.
BTW, all of that 'pacbell.net' spam normally ends up in the "Bulk" folder of that account.
Did you ever send email from that Gmail account to a friend, or relative?
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LilYoda
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Mountains | Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail Nope, never sent an email with it, never put it anywhere on any website.
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