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Spammers Choose GMail

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-inbox-it-hurts dept.

EdwardLAN writes "A study by Roaring Penguin has discovered that during the past three weeks, the amount of spam originating from Gmail has risen sharply." My spam has been pretty ridiculously high for the last few weeks, although I have no idea if this is part of it. It really does seem like gmail's spam filters are declining these days.

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  1. Re:Invite-Only by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's still in beta. Bugs like massive amounts of spam originating from the service are bound to turn in up in beta software.

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  2. Re:No spam for me. by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good I'm safe... It just asked for my credit card number.

  3. Re:Gmail's spam filters by HardCase · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now listen, if you've waited this long to complain about Taco's reading comprehension skills, you're way too late to get into the game.

  4. Re:Companies blocking Gmail? by Noexit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Taking his mom was the first mistake.

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  5. Re:Invite-Only by dontmakemethink · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wine was in an alpha/beta state for what...16 years?

    It took forever to work out the tannins...

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