On 12/17/05, Nebuchadnezzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had noticed this as well, and I have to agree. I am a very satisfied gmail > user, and most certainly wouldnt touch hotmail again with a 20 meter pole. > Not only that, but (touch proverbial wood) I have yet to recieve a single > item of -actual- [SPAM] in my inbox -or- spam folder. Very, very impressed.
I don't get that much spam at all. I think its also the type of content you view. I have non-programmer, non-linux-using friends that have about 600 spam messages a month, yet I still only get about 100 a month (I don't know for sure - I delete them often, and I get maybe 6 a day). Recently some spam has made it through that's in Spanish (don't ask why - I really don't know) and then there's some gmail user named winnie that's either a spammer him/her -self or has got the worst password security practises imaginable, 'cause this user sends nothing but spam to me. Gmail has excellent spam filters, yes, but it's not perfect. I think it stems from the old saying that if you idiot-proof your software, the world will just make a better idiot. > On 12/18/05, Hank Barta < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/16/05, Fielder George Dowding < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Boy, I hate to make things worse by replying to this. On the other hand, > > > I would hope there would be some way of blocking this stuff at the > > > server. fgd. too late. you did. now I've had to leave my 2 cents in it.
