I'm seeing new spam with unsubscribe links that take you to a malware site... be sure you watch the links and make sure they look legit or you may end up with a lot of other spam... Joe wrote: >I can't help you Gmail specifically (their filter works 99.9% of the >time for me), but what I can suggest is unsubscribing from any lists you >get. That is, any email you get with an unsubscribe link on the bottom, >make sure you click it and ask to be removed from all mailing. > >Someone told me to try this a while back and I always thought it was a >waste of time. I decided to do it with my dedicated SPAM account (the >email I use to sign up for random things, for forums, to buy stuff >online or do anything that I think might result in unwanted emails) and >I've been pretty amazed with the results. I still get a handful of >*real* SPAM (stuff you can't unsubscribe from) on a weekly basis, but >the number of bunk messages I get in there is WAY down. > >Might be worth your time. Of course, if all your SPAM is real SPAM and >lacks a way to be removed, then this advice won't help you at all. > >-Joe > >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 >> >--------------------------------------------------- >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