Turned on the 2 factor authentication? Works in one of 2 ways - sends an SMS number - run a authenticator app on iPhone or Android. (possibly Windows, but I haven't looked)
It's a marked increase in security. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:58 PM, David Richards <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- 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
