Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

[mike havens]

I get a lot of spam too but 99% of it goes to the spam box.... is it the
same with you guys?

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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