Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19610035 en Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:40:35 EDT Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:40:35 EDT Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19618459 russotto :
said by LilYoda See Profile :

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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19618459 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:16:46 EDT Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19617881 LilYoda : Nope, never sent an email with it, never put it anywhere on any website.

Weird :hmm:]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19617881 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:38:44 EDT Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19616712 NormanS : 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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said by LilYoda See Profile :

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, :uhh: so I have no idea how the *$@! this email got added to spam lists (when none of my other emails have).
The more spam Gmail users report the better Gmail gets. I got Gmail when it first came out (Beta) and they said to report spam so the system will reject it in the future. More intuitive than Yahoo. The only "spam" I get is from Hillary Clinton even though I've opted out numerous times.

I got Hillary's mail then John Edwards found me then Barack Obama did then Mitt Romney did then Ron Paul did (I reported his as spam...LOL) then Kucinich started. I do get all Ann Coulter's articles so I guess that balances out getting Paul and Kucinich's crap like, "Vote for ___ in the Internet poll at www.idiotforpresidents.com)". :)
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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 :D
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said by LilYoda See Profile :

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, :uhh: 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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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, :uhh: 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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Arno Penzias - Former Head of Bell Labs, and Nobel prizewinner]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19614778 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:52:23 EDT Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19614375 NormanS : About 97% of the spam to my Yahoo! and ISP accounts winds up in the "Bulk" folder.
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said by Karl Bode See Profile :

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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said by supergirl See Profile :

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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said by supergirl See Profile :

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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19609970 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:53:37 EDT I rarely get spam on Gmail http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19609928 supergirl : On ISP or Yahoo, I get a ton.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19609928 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:47:06 EDT