Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

[Bob Elzer]

Nobody has asked what your email account is, is somebody at gmail.com ??? Or Do
you have gmail receiving the  joe at actionline one ?

I have a gmail account, I don't get any spam, and I haven't set any filters,
gmail does a good job on it's own.

Next I would ask if this is your doing or someone who doesn't like you. What
I mean is are you signing up to lots of things and leaving your email
address everywhere, or Maybe someone else is signing you up for different
mailing lists on purpose.

If either is the case, I would suggest you get a new gmail address, and stop
giving it out, except to the most important people you want to talk to.

What mail reader are you using, have you tried adding filters to your mail
reader ?

Like someone else added, have another email for signing up for things, like
at yahoo (lol) where mine is.

But really if it's overwhelming like you say, I think the best answer is to
get a new email address.


 

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Josef
Lowder
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:07 PM
To: Plug
Subject: OT: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

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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