Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

[Charles Jones]

Bob Elzer wrote:
> Nobody has asked what your email account is, is somebody at gmail.com ??? Or Do
> you have gmail receiving the  joe at actionline one ?
>   
That makes me wonder, If you configure gmail to pull from other POP/IMAP 
accounts, maybe it just pulls whatever is there and does not spam filter 
it like it does for directly received mail?
> I have a gmail account, I don't get any spam, and I haven't set any filters,
> gmail does a good job on it's own.
>
> Next I would ask if this is your doing or someone who doesn't like you. What
> I mean is are you signing up to lots of things and leaving your email
> address everywhere, or Maybe someone else is signing you up for different
> mailing lists on purpose.
>
> If either is the case, I would suggest you get a new gmail address, and stop
> giving it out, except to the most important people you want to talk to.
>
> What mail reader are you using, have you tried adding filters to your mail
> reader ?
>
> Like someone else added, have another email for signing up for things, like
> at yahoo (lol) where mine is.
>
> But really if it's overwhelming like you say, I think the best answer is to
> get a new email address.
>
>
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Josef
> Lowder
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:07 PM
> To: Plug
> Subject: OT: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?
>
> In the past, I have pleaded for help with this issue, and some have
> responded with frustration that I brought this up again ... so I apologize
> in advance for bringing this up again now.  But the problem has worstened to
> an enormously frustrating extent.
>
> More than 2,000 spam email messages now come into my gmail account every
> day.  It is perplexing and infuriating to me that google/gmail will not
> allow creating filters to *delete* (not just move to trash) all this garbage
> that is clearly identifiable and definable.
>
> Recently, gmail began to mark about half to 2/3rds of this garbage with the
> title *****SPAM***** in the subject line.  Why would they bother doing that
> instead of just totally blocking or automatically deleting forever all this
> garbage rather than just labeling it as
> SPAM?   Or at least give us the option to choose to have all such mail
> deleted rather than put into a spam folder.
>
> I (and many others) have written to Google and to Gmail forums about this
> numerous times, but of course no one at Google ever responds.
>
> What prompts this message today is that I have recently talked with other
> email users  who are even larger volume users of email than I and they have
> expressed amazement at the volume of spam that I am receiving.  Because,
> they have reported to me that they are *not* receiving even 1/100th of the
> volume of spam that I receive.
>
> So, can anyone recommend any remedy or alternate, perhaps even a paid web
> mail service, by which I might be able to gain some control over this
> nightmare?
>
> I would certainly be willing to pay for a solution.
>
> Help!