LilYoda
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Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail
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 *$@! this email got added to spam lists (when none of my other emails have).
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Matt
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| said by LilYoda  :You know what's weird? I got a gmail about a year and a half ago (had had an invite sitting in my yahoo mail for a while) I've never used it. ever! I've never sent a single email with it, and forgot about it. When I go back to it now, I see 12 spams in the inbox, and 296 in the spam folder. I'd find it surprising that I'm the only gmail user whose email was sold to spam outfits by google, so I have no idea how the *$@! 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 | 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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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). 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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NormanS
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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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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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