Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

[Bob Elzer]

Yes, if it is pulling mail, that mail is not going through the gmail
filters, it's just going and retrieving them, so the spam would be getting
through those other accounts filters.

I would think you should be able to identify the accounts which are getting
the spam.
  

-----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 Charles
Jones
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 10:12 AM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

Bob Elzer wrote:
> Nobody has asked what your email account is, is somebody at gmail.com ??? 
> Or Do you have gmail receiving the  joe at actionline one ?
>   
That makes me wonder, If you configure gmail to pull from other POP/IMAP
accounts, maybe it just pulls whatever is there and does not spam filter it
like it does for directly received mail?
> 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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