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That seems strange. I've had a gmail account since the first open days of the beta in 2004, and never get spam in my inbox. Their spam filtering works extraordi

That seems strange. I've had a gmail account since the first open days of the beta in 2004, and never get spam in my inbox. Their spam filtering works extraordinarily well for me.

pooriaazimi 14y ago
Same for me. I'm far from a Google lover, but I opened my Gmail account in 2004 (when it was still invitation-only), and never, ever did I hesitate to put my email address even in the shitiest, scammiest sites/registration forums I see. Only about 5-6 spams in the past 8 years, an 0 false positives. My previous experience with Yahoo (pre 2004) was much much worse. I haven't use Hotmail though, and as I seriously doubt Apple's technical skills when it comes to cloud services, I don't feel safe to put my @me.com address anywhere public.
- jackmoore 14y ago
  I guess I'm the only one that gets spam with Gmail. I receive about 15,000 spam a month of which 10-20 a day get through. Unfortunately my email address is in the JavaScript of a lot of websites due to a plugin I authored.
  - fps 14y ago
    Not alone; I'm in the same boat, although I haven't done as much to get my address "out there"
- fps 14y ago
  How do you count "getting spam"? My gmail spam label accumulates about 14K messages a month (mail labelled spam gets automatically dropped after 30 days. I can't possibly guess if there have ever been any false-positives) I have another filter that I set up with certain key words like "unsubscribe" or "opt-out" that seems about 98% accurate in catching spam that gmail would otherwise push to my inbox, and that accumulates about 400 messages a month. Still, after all that, I'd guess I get about 10 pieces of spam in my gmail inbox every day. I have a very common firstname.lastname@gmail.com style address that I've had since April 1, 2004. I pretty liberally publish my gmail address (it's posted on my resume and on facebook, for example) but I tend to only give it to very trustworthy app/website developers for account purposes, with a first.last+identifier@gmail.com. Some of them still sell my address, despite claiming they won't. I never sign up for marketing or contests or anything of that sort, yet I'm still about ready to walk away from gmail due to the spam. I think my biggest culprit is other people with the same name who can't remember their own address; I know when someone else goes insurance shopping, car shopping, home shopping, etc, based on the random influx of mail.
Retric 14y ago
Just checked; 718 messages in my Inbox and I have only used the account for Google docks so they are 100% spam. I even double checked the top 20 of them and yep all spam.
- nucleardog 14y ago
  Go purchase a domain ($10/yr) and set up Google Apps for Domains. My old gmail account (that I only keep around because Google has a bad habit of launching a service not support Apps accounts for the first few months - need it to log in) gets a bunch of spam (the filter seems to catch it all the odd time I look). However, the account at my domain gets almost none, even though I use it to sign up for everything. I'd honestly kind of forgotten that spam is a thing people worry about still. I'd guess either the spammers figure @gmail.com addresses are more valuable, or they're performing some sort of dictionary attack against it which, of course, does not hit my domain.

That seems strange. I've had a gmail account since the first open days of the beta in 2004, and never get spam in my inbox. Their spam filtering works extraordinarily well for me.

pooriaazimi 14y ago

Same for me. I'm far from a Google lover, but I opened my Gmail account in 2004 (when it was still invitation-only), and never, ever did I hesitate to put my email address even in the shitiest, scammiest sites/registration forums I see. Only about 5-6 spams in the past 8 years, an 0 false positives. My previous experience with Yahoo (pre 2004) was much much worse. I haven't use Hotmail though, and as I seriously doubt Apple's technical skills when it comes to cloud services, I don't feel safe to put my @me.com address anywhere public.

jackmoore 14y ago
I guess I'm the only one that gets spam with Gmail. I receive about 15,000 spam a month of which 10-20 a day get through. Unfortunately my email address is in the JavaScript of a lot of websites due to a plugin I authored.
- fps 14y ago
  Not alone; I'm in the same boat, although I haven't done as much to get my address "out there"
fps 14y ago
How do you count "getting spam"? My gmail spam label accumulates about 14K messages a month (mail labelled spam gets automatically dropped after 30 days. I can't possibly guess if there have ever been any false-positives) I have another filter that I set up with certain key words like "unsubscribe" or "opt-out" that seems about 98% accurate in catching spam that gmail would otherwise push to my inbox, and that accumulates about 400 messages a month. Still, after all that, I'd guess I get about 10 pieces of spam in my gmail inbox every day. I have a very common firstname.lastname@gmail.com style address that I've had since April 1, 2004. I pretty liberally publish my gmail address (it's posted on my resume and on facebook, for example) but I tend to only give it to very trustworthy app/website developers for account purposes, with a first.last+identifier@gmail.com. Some of them still sell my address, despite claiming they won't. I never sign up for marketing or contests or anything of that sort, yet I'm still about ready to walk away from gmail due to the spam. I think my biggest culprit is other people with the same name who can't remember their own address; I know when someone else goes insurance shopping, car shopping, home shopping, etc, based on the random influx of mail.

Retric 14y ago

Just checked; 718 messages in my Inbox and I have only used the account for Google docks so they are 100% spam. I even double checked the top 20 of them and yep all spam.

nucleardog 14y ago
Go purchase a domain ($10/yr) and set up Google Apps for Domains. My old gmail account (that I only keep around because Google has a bad habit of launching a service not support Apps accounts for the first few months - need it to log in) gets a bunch of spam (the filter seems to catch it all the odd time I look). However, the account at my domain gets almost none, even though I use it to sign up for everything. I'd honestly kind of forgotten that spam is a thing people worry about still. I'd guess either the spammers figure @gmail.com addresses are more valuable, or they're performing some sort of dictionary attack against it which, of course, does not hit my domain.