Surprisingly no one has said a word about it. Spam dropped off dramatically across the web a few weeks ago when a major spam network was shutdown. Spam across my server dropped by 75% or so and I saw a similar drop at work on our antispam servers.
Spam will find you anywhere you go, the spammers have lots of different methods of finding your email, including trying dictionary attacks against mail servers. a...@gmail.com, a...@gmail.com, a...@gmail.com, etc. I've seen these types of probes against my servers. The emails that don't bounce, they know are good, take record of it, and send spam to it. I created a second gmail account at the same time that I created wok...@gmail.com, but I've never used it to send or receive any mail. It gets about 400 spam a month so far. Funny thing is, wokkad only gets about 100, and I use it quite a bit. Luck of the draw I guess. I haven't used my gmail for any groups or mailing lists outside of cavetex, but my thinking is that its tied into a cookie on your desktop computer, pointing everything over to your gmail. It may be an option to turn off, but that's purely a guess. Good luck. > That's understandable. I would imagine you had texascavers subscribers > making inquiries to whether there was a connection between their > association > of texascavers and the arrival of fetid spam in their mailboxes. I know I > had a lot that seemingly came from nowhere. > It has declined quite a bit in the last two weeks or so. (to > wavyca...@hotmail.com - I've YET to receive any junkmail in my new > wavycaver@gmail - I hope it stays that way!) > > Incidentally, I've noticed that now I cannot post to any newsgroups > without > my gmail address getting involved - so I don't. Not on this platform. I > think my membership to all google-piped and google-based 'newsgroups' > automatically is associated with my java-embedded identity. Other than > using a different computer or signing in as Mr. Anonymous when I start XP > - > do you know of another way of sidestepping this? > I tried to make my group associations go back to wavycaver@yahoo (what I > used in the past) but the google environment just won't allow it. > > Otherwise thanks for convincing me to use gmail - it really is the best > I've > seen since way back when I was using "Agent" (back in those pre spam-mania > days with ISP based email). > > -Don C. > > PS - the confusion about the "wizard dialogs and mail services selection" > turned out to be Outlook doing ITS thing when encountering a 'mailto:' and > not knowing how to process it. Grrrr - microsoft...... > > On 3/7/07, wo...@justfamily.org <wo...@justfamily.org> wrote: >> >> Sorta, and we always have problems with phishers... the software is >> supposed to strip out email addresses from the archives, and it was only >> partially working, so I took them down until and update can be provided >> to >> fix it. >> >> > Hey - what happened to the archive view on Texascavers? >> > Trouble with the phishers? >> > -Don C >> > >> >> >> >
