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d a v e
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gmail spam - 8/31/2008 10:04:37
how much spam do you get to your gmail accounts?
i have a cloaked (unicode encoded ) email address on my site ( http://pp.kpnet.fi/prescott/ ) and i get about 5-15 crap things a day.
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womble
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RE: gmail spam - 8/31/2008 14:32:45
Around 10-20 a day. I don't use my Gmail address on any of my sites, so they must be getting mine either from either a dictionary type approach, just trying out various combinations in the hope of striking lucky, or some unscrupulous website/forum/mailing list owner's passing on their mailing list details. I did read about a trick with putting a '+' after your account name, which Google ignores and still delivers to you (though of course some systems won't let you use a + in an email address), but you can use it to see where particular emails are coming from - useful if you suspect a certain site's selling it's mailing list. I've never got round to trying it out though.
Anyhow, full details of it, and many other cool Gmail tricks, here: http://g04.com/misc/GmailTipsComplete.html#Tip-05
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MCD
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RE: gmail spam - 9/1/2008 13:28:49
I have about 8,400 over the last 30 days.
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treetopsranch
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RE: gmail spam - 9/1/2008 15:06:19
Not a user of Gmail here but don't they have spam filters? OR are they as effective as the spam filters on AOL? Wife gets 10 to 20 spam a day on AOL with no hope of stopping the flood.
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