True, most of the spam goes into the spam folder. But it gets about 50-100 a day. My main account gets at most 1 spam email a week and maybe 1 or 2 false positives a week.
If I had to guess I'd say the account registration issues have been fixed and deleting the account would mean I could never get it back. I don't really use it much because of the security issue but I'm stubbornly refusing to let it go :) Maybe some day if I could be bothered I'll have another go at google to fix it but it's pretty low on my todo list. These days it's more of an interesting anecdote and a reminder of just how easy it is to lose all privacy, in this case because of a tiny dot. Many people don't even notice them. I've occasionally received emails intended for the other guy but mistakenly sent to me. Probably a good argument to not allow the two addresses to exist at the same time. David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 13 May 2013 15:45, mike smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:31 PM, David Richards > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had those exact same thoughts. Which is why I stopped using the > account. > > Which annoys me a bit because I was quit happy to successfully get my > name > > rather than [email protected] or something. The other guy also > seems to > > have no idea how to avoid getting spam because it's the only account I > have > > that gets large quantities of it. > > But gmail is so good at filtering it. 99.99% of all spam gets there, > I'd guess about 1% of non spam is getting assessed as spam. I blame a > lot of it as being because my email is my battlenet name, and my email > was on Stratfor's hacked list. :( > > > > > Now I only use the account for testing so he's welcome to my "Yay the > email > > function worked!" emails :) > > Wonder what would happen if you deleted it? > > -- > Meski > > http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv > > "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, > you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills >
