OT: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

[Joe]

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!
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