gmail and spam

Leon Goldstein metapsych at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 3 07:58:08 PDT 2008


Kurt Wall wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 07:37:17PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
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>>Has anyone else on gmail noticed a marked increase lately  in the
>>number of spams that aren't trapped by the spam filters?
>>
>>I'm still getting the 200-400 spams per day that are trapped, but
>>since Thursday or Friday I'm getting 15-20 a day that aren't trapped.
>>Most of these are financial and/or real estate topics. Even after
>>several days of marking them as spam, the filter doesn't seem to be
>>learning.
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>/me nods. Lot more was getting through last week and this weekend. The
>volume is down today, but I'm pessimistic enough to believe that it will
>pick up again.
>
>Kurt
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I'm picking up spam on my Juno account as well, which is unusual since 
Juno's spam filtration/block is aggressive.  One click of the "mark as 
spam" button and the sender doesn't get through the server again.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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