Maybe the spammers gave up? HA! It's Friday. It was an entertaining thought. :)
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Ian Thomas <il.tho...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > I know that Microsoft, Google, others have been using DMARC for over a > year, but that doesn’t explain your more recent drop-off in spam. **** > > ** ** > > (I had to search, found > this<http://www.pcworld.com/article/249028/google_microsoft_and_facebook_battle_phishing_with_new_specification.html>; > I’m sure I had read about it well before January last year)**** > > Major Internet companies including Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have > announced a new specification to streamline the way e-mail providers work > out whether messages are part of phishing attacks using spoofed domain > addresses.**** > > In testing for two years and called > DMARC<http://www.dmarc.org/index.html>(Domain-based Message Authentication, > Reporting & Conformance), the > initiative is really an attempt to impose a single set of policies on the > sometimes arbitrary way that way companies separate the good e-mail from > the bad. **** > > ** ** > ------------------------------ > > **Ian Thomas** > Victoria Park, ****Western Australia******** > > ** ** > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Burstin > *Sent:* Friday, May 03, 2013 8:24 AM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* [OT] Gmail and spam**** > > ** ** > > Hi folks,**** > > ** ** > > I've noticed that my gmail spam folder (spam for the last 30 days) has > dropped from an average of around 500 emails down to about 60. Anyone else > had a similar experience? Any ideas why the sudden drop?**** > > ** ** > > On a possibly related note, yesterday I sent myself an email from gmail to > another account I have. That account is set up to forward its emails back > to my gmail account. Previously doing this has meant that my email shows up > both in my sent items and in my inbox. Yesterday the email didn't arrive > (although it is in my sent items). I can see 2 possible reasons:**** > > 1. Gmail is smart enough to recognize that the email originated from > my account so isn't putting it into my inbox (although this has not been > the case previously)**** > 2. The account I sent it to is now on some kind of spam list and gmail > has blocked it (although it is not in my spam folder)**** > > I'm interested in hearing other people's thoughts as to what might be the > cause.**** > > ** ** > > Happy Friday.**** > > ** ** > > Dave**** >
