I have to agree with dazed on this one... go sign up for a new account and don't use it for any websites you're not sure about. Even my "spam email box" only sees around 30/week Dazed_75 wrote: >On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: > >> 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! >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >Please don't take this wrong, but I have always found that people who get a >lot of spam get it because they: > > - openly list their email address on forums, boards and such, > - have "friends" who forward their emails without removing personal info, > or > - inadvertently give web sites/vendors permission to share their > addresses with "business partners" (basically do not un-check relevant check > boxes) > >I doubt there is any method satisfactory to filter spam from an account that >gets as much as you do. I have never before heard of anyone getting more >than a couple hundred per day. I get 2-10 per week and before a coupe >months ago it was more like 1-4 per month. > >Personally, I would say to get a new email addr and use it only for serious >email and protect it wildly. If you must keep the current addr, tell your >cohorts to use somethig you can filter on to direct good email to somewhere >and just auto-delete everything else. > >Sorry > >-- >Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss