Re: [PLUG] OT: gmail invites available.

[Rebecca Ore <rebecca.ore@verizon.net>]

On Friday, August 27, 2004, at 04:15 PM, Chad Waters wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 03:01:26PM -0400, Rebecca Ore wrote:

> > The accounts accumulate spam at an absolutely amazing rate, so either
> > they're getting dictionary attacks or Google has a searchable database
> > of mailing addresses.
>
> Really? I haven't noticed that problem at all. I've had an account for
> over a month and the only spam I get on it is through unmoderated
> debian lists. There's nothing, absolutely nothing, that was addressed 
> directly
> to me.


<Shrug>  I'm not sure why, but I'm getting a huge amount of it, more 
than a screenful's worth of messages headers per day (two passes 
through to delete it all).  I haven't used my gmail address anywhere on 
line and I use a different browser for gmail than I use for general 
browsing.  The filtering is fairly good, but misses about five to ten 
spams a day which show up in my inbox.

Verizon has BrightMail filtering and I set that to delete spam so I 
could be getting a lot of spam on this address and just not picking it 
up.


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