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Ask Slashdot: Why Can't Google Block Spam In Gmail?
An anonymous reader writes Every day my gmail account receives 30-50 spam emails. Some of it is UCE, partially due to a couple dingbats with similar names who apparently think my gmail account belongs to them. The remainder looks to be spambot or Nigerian 419 email. I also run my own MX for my own domain, where I also receive a lot of spam. But with a combination of a couple DNSBL in my sendmail config, SpamAssassin, and procmail, almost none of it gets through to my inbox. In both cases there are rare false positives where a legit email ends up in my spam folder, or in the case of my MX, a spam email gets through to my Inbox, but these are rare occurrences. I'd think with all the Oompa Loompas at the Chocolate Factory that they could do a better job rejecting the obvious spam emails. If they did it would make checking for the occasional false positives in my spam folder a teeny bit easier. For anyone who's responsible for shunting Web-scale spam toward the fate it deserves, what factors go into the decision tree that might lead to so much spam getting through?
Oompa Loompas HA...
switch over to Yahoo mail
Then stop buying the penis pills and Google might actually believe you think it's spam.
The only way that I will accept your 50% claim is if you convince me that you have many pen pals in the Nigerian Royal family.
Same here. I subscribed way back when it was in beta as well, only my address is my first and last name. Same problem with fucking morons that don't know their own GMail address.
Lately I've taken to responding to messages I receive for other people. I've cancelled items ordered over the internet because I receive a confirmation email. I've cancelled hotel reservations....that one was funny...I wish I could have been there when the jackass tried to check in. I've even responded to quite obvious business emails where someone was looking for feedback on a project and I told them it was complete shit, they were incompetent and they and their team was about to be fired.
Confuse my email address for yours because your too fucking lazy to learn the difference....then enjoy the consequences.