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Read Latest Entries..: (Post #40) by saitunes on May 13 2008, 01:15 PM.
I will admit I get alot of spam on my gmail accounts, but I never see it, I check my emails and only occaisionally get spam, normally when they come from 'real-looking' accounts. I have been getting ones visit 'help4freedom dotcom'anyone else?
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Imtay22
Do you think gmail gives too much spam? I have been a member of gmail for a month now and I have about 200 spam emails! Do, do YOU think they give too much spam? VOTE!

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rvalkass
Its not GMail sending you the spam, and they have no way to prevent people actually sending it in the first place. What spam I do receive to my GMail account is put into the spam folder automatically 99.9% of the time. Only 2 or 3 times have I had to manually mark something as spam, and never has it marked legitimate mail as spam.

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Imtay22
Well can't GMail set up a filter from sending spam? Like HotMail has not that much spam, and about half of the mail in my inbox is spam. Weird?!

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truefusion
Although recently some have been getting into my inbox, i must say Gmail is my only email account that doesn't receive as much spam as the others. I probably receive probably less than 10 a week, while in the others probably over 200 a week. The trick is not to give out your email freely out there on the internet.

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ghostrider
Gamil doesn't give you spam, spammers do. I get around 500 spam messages a day, but none in my inbox ever smile.gif. I delete them every week or so. I've gotten 57 so far today.

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AnkitGoswami
Spam that gets sent to the spam folder doesn't bother me but when it arrives in the inbox it is very irritating. I started getting around 150 spam emails in my yahoo account so i switched to gmail where my inbox is spam free. I know gmail checks for automated and script generated spam 'cause when I run a script to send emails they get sent to the spam folder but i think yahoo does this also and well written scripts can slip emails into the inbox. Lately, I've been getting lots of spam emails asking for my bank account number on the pretext of transfering large sums of money into my account. I don't know why these ppl don't get tired of pestering normal internet users.

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Imtay22
As I said, MOST of my spam goes to my inbox, which I really hate. I get like 200 a day though gmail, I think Hotmail dosen't give a lot of spam out.

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t3jem
QUOTE(Imtay22 @ Apr 14 2007, 09:25 AM) *
As I said, MOST of my spam goes to my inbox, which I really hate. I get like 200 a day though gmail, I think Hotmail dosen't give a lot of spam out.


As said above, neither gmail nor hotmail give out spam. I don't know who you give your emails to, but I get 0 spam, in my spam folder or out. I don't get much email either but either way, the spam filter on the accounts can't stop all spam especially if you give your email out to a site that will use your email maliciously. My hotmail account receives tons of spam, its annoying and I can't stop it, so I moved to gmail, I know that if I gave the same people my gmail email then i'd get the same emails, so its not gmail's fault your getting spam, its yours.

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MIGUE2k7
Spam emails are not sent from the email provider itself, them are sent from people advertising their products or offers, using the mass email method.
I think that these people look somehow at the email addresses created on the email provider and pick many of them randomly, i doubt that is cause you throw your email address over the internet, because i was already getting spam mail right when i created my Gmail account.

In really, for me Gmail is the account that gives me more spam messages, but never in my inbox smile.gif its always on the Spam folder.
My Hotmail account never gives me any spam mail, weird thing.

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Saint_Michael
It's the spammers that send you you spammail whats good is that gmail picks up pretty good I let ir run several weeks and I usally get 4-5000 spam a month give or take, I bet I could have gotten none, if I didn't sign up for those survey programs (I never did them anyways). Also once you start publishing your email on website spam bots will pick it up, that why you using either images or different symbols to break the email pattern.

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saitunes
I will admit I get alot of spam on my gmail accounts, but I never see it, I check my emails and only occaisionally get spam, normally when they come from 'real-looking' accounts. I have been getting ones visit 'help4freedom dotcom'

anyone else?

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lailai
QUOTE(Imtay22 @ Apr 14 2007, 01:56 PM) *
Well can't GMail set up a filter from sending spam? Like HotMail has not that much spam, and about half of the mail in my inbox is spam. Weird?!

Agreed. I got 40 spam mails a day, and someone is faking our emails. A gmail user send me a mail to remove me from mailing list. Well, I did not knew him, and I don't have any lists ohmy.gif what's wrong? Well, he gave me a copy of the email a spammer used PHP to faked my email address. And most of my spam comes from gmail users.

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thecolorchangingfedora
I've been using Gmail for four years now . . . I actually do get more spam than I did with yahoo. Still, I think its perks make up for it. Like, say, the space, the way it's set up, the overall organization, the space . . the space? I couldn't care how much spam I get . . I'd never stop using gmail.

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Absolute Zer0
Gmail does a good job of filtering Spam into the Spam folder in my experience, much better than any other Email I have. A lot of Emaikl does nothing for spam, so I say Gmail is great for this reason. No problems with spam here!

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bk2070
I actually get less spam with Gmail, then with Yahoo Mail. Plus, Gmail is just better than Yahoo Mail in some many ways, that I will never go back.

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