<OT>Anybody home?

[Collins Richey]

On 10/24/06, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> > On 10/24/06, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 10/24/06, Harry G <hg57 at sc.rr.com> wrote:
> >>> The list appears to be dead.  No emails for the past 20 hours or so.
> >>>
> >> Now I'm looking at  mail again.
> >
> > And, of course, gmail has flagged 463 pieces of spam in the past 30
> > hours! It's absolutely mind boggling to conceptualize how much spam
> > passes through gmail on a daily basis! Oh what a relief it is to click
> > twice and it's gone.
>
> Please explain.  I am using earthlink for a mail server and while I see
> some crud, I do not see 463 pieces or anything like that.  I have some
> filters on the earthlink server turned "on".
>

I get that much spam all the time. Some services may send this stuff
directly to /dev/null, but gmail just tags it in a separate folder
(label). My theory is, the longer you use a given email address, the
more spam you attract. If I had to manage this crap myself, I would be
forced to change my email address on a regular basis.

Fortunately, gmail has very good and continuously learning spam
detection software. I only get about 5 misses a week that aren;t
already tagged as spam, and only one or two false hits every few
months. Lately,I don't even look; I just whack the contents of the
spam folder every night.

Also fortunately for me, no one except for Bill Campbell seems to care
that my email is sent from a Comcast ip address <grin>.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.