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

[Blake Gonterman]

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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 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Josef Lowder <joe at 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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