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Ask HN: Is your gmail being overrun by spam?
I've been using gmail as my exclusive email for a while now (since mid-beta or so), and up until a few months ago, it was exceedingly rare that any spam at all made it in to my inbox. However, for the past few months, it seems that I get between 1 and 4 spam in my inbox a day that gmail doesn't filter.
Is this a widespread issue, or am I just really unlucky?
- spooneybarger 16y agoI have multiple gmail accounts and still only get spam in my inbox about once a week at most and false positives about 2 times a month.
- mrcharles 16y agoSee, I've never had a false positive... that I know of, anyway.
- spooneybarger 16y agoI only get false positives for mailing lists shortly after they have received spam.
- gnok 16y agoI wouldn't go so far as to say 'overrun', but I'm certainly seeing a lot more spam recently (last 3 months or so) than before.
- TallGuyShort 16y agoI've seen a sharp increase in the past 3 months also. Mine is all getting filtered to my spam folder, however my spam folder almost never received anything up until recently.
- euginfodev 16y agoI am also getting this. Have been using gmail since 2005 without any spam getting to my inbox, but now I get about 2 per day.