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/weekDazed_75 <
lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:>On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Josef Lowder <
joe@actionline.com> 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 -
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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 -
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http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discussI 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 <
lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Josef Lowder <joe@actionline.com> 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!
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>>
>
>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
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