Spam (and Gmail)

You probably won’t have noticed because you don’t read my email, but spammers have started taking shots at my contact box above. Which is just idiotic, really. I’m running a blog with Spam Karma, Akismet, a spam-blocking shoutbox, and trackback validation: you think I’m vulnerable to spam? Talk about a waste of time!

But then again, I get something like 100 spams a day in my Gmail account (after I posted it all over the web to see what would happen), so I guess my point is if they have a worldwide net of zombie boxes, they’re going to spam anything and everything in sight.

In other news, Gmail is still letting through a great deal of the Nigerian scam type emails that come my way. Seriously. I get three or four every day landing in my inbox. Gmail team: shape it up.

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Posted September 26th, 2006 in main. Tagged: , , .

11 comments:

  1. Chris Hubbs:

    Hmmm… I get slammed with gmail spam, but rarely does anything get through the spam filter. Maybe one message per week? Maybe you’re just special. :-)

    September 26th, 2006 at 9:15 am
  2. jules:

    Honestly… I barely get any spam on Gmail…. Maybe one or two a week, and nothing ever gets through. Maybe I’m not important enough to fight for?

    September 26th, 2006 at 10:02 am
  3. ricochet:

    Serves you right for using gaymail, I mean.. gmail.

    Hahaha.

    I get 1 spam a month in my sympatico account - and approx 40 a day in my hotmail account, however the hotmail ones are all junk filtered and nothing gets through.

    September 26th, 2006 at 10:21 am
  4. daniel:

    Gus, what I think you fail to understand is that the positives of using Gmail far, far outweight the negatives of getting three spam out of a hundred a day land in my inbox.

    Plus, you should thank Gmail users, as Gmail is the only reason Microsoft raised Hotmail capacities. If it weren’t for us, you’d still be stuck with a lame 2mb of space. So you see how Gmail benefits even you, the luddite?

    d

    September 26th, 2006 at 10:43 am
  5. ricochet:

    Hotmail serves my purposes just fine, remote desktop connections serve the rest. I agree though, Gmail stuck it to msn right in the gonads, now I can store all the junk mail I recieve when using my web based browser as opposed to my Outlook 2007 or Firebird.

    Also - Luddite =
    I’m lazy and don’t need more than the 4 email accounts I posess. 2 1 gig storage work accounts, and my aformentioned hotmail / sympatico accounts.

    I’m also not certain that I should be called a Luddite. In my understanding of the concept “Luddite” requires Gmail to be based on technology that is completely new. but I’ll let you decide that, since my experience is minimal with such system.

    I think all of us are luddites - at least, those of us who refuse sex changes, driving hybrid cars, drinking coffee with sweetner in it, giving up classic rock, purchasing usb 2.0 cards, or using linux on our IPODS.

    Technology is the damnation of us all . ROAR.

    I’m not bitter, Im crazy .

    September 26th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
  6. Geof F. Morris:

    Dear Daniel:

    Not all people who eschew GMail are Luddites.

    Yours,
    Geof

    September 26th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
  7. daniel:

    Me and Gus have a special relationship where we make fun of each other. He’s probably the furthest thing from a Luddite that I know.

    Yours,
    Context

    September 26th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
  8. Gus:

    It’s the very truth -

    Our motto is…

    iocor necnon intempestivus iocus.

    Jest and being understood Jesting.

    allthough I was serious about the sex change thing - I’m def. not embracing that technology.

    September 26th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
  9. Geof F. Morris:

    Thanks for the context. :)

    September 26th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
  10. Sherry:

    Gmail is letting spam through? Interesting because I actually found Gmail’s Spam control not too shabby.

    Maybe those Nigerians REALLY want you to have their money ;D

    September 27th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
  11. Tim:

    speaking as a bank employee… have you reported the sources of those Nigerian scams to the proper authorities? Also if you find you get multiple scams from the same source, my brother found that replying and CALLING them ‘Nigerian Fraud Scammers’ ensures that they dont bother with you anymore. Sometimes.

    oddly enough, my hotmail account overfilters my spam… so i never see any of it, AND i sometimes dont see important stuf that I DO want to see. but i dont know if there is a way around that, based on how their filter program works (only allowing emails from reputable registerd companies, and people on your contact list.)

    September 28th, 2006 at 12:29 pm

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