GMail Spam

[Gerard]

Bing wrote:
>  Is anyone else out there who has suscribed to GMAIL getting SPAM from
> overseas email accounts wanting you to respond to deaths of heirs and
> heiresses who have no one to leave there money to and are looking for
> you to share in the wealth... like 15 million and above ........THIS
> Gmail SPAM Is KILLING ME.....I Can only tell them to @#$%-OFF so many
> times
> Rich Palazzoli
> '01 A4 2.8Q 30v
> '93 URS4

... and every time you reply to those e-mail you confirm to the e-mail 
list manager that there is an actual responding person on the other side 
of the e-mail address. Never reply to spam e-mails, never follow the 
unsubscribe links in the e-mails that you might receive. The links are 
really e-mail confirmations. They send an e-mail to someone and someone 
on the other end makes the effort to try and unsubscribe and this is 
really an indication to the e-mail sender that the e-mail address is in use.

Free e-mail accounts are rubbish in my opinion. I used to be with 
netforward.com (a simple e-mail forwarding service) since 1996/7. Had 
the same e-mail address for years, kept changing the forward details. 
Very convenient, and it was free. Then the spam thing happened, the 
owners decided they will charge $10 a year to maintain the service, and 
whaddyaknow all of sudden I'm up to 300 spams a day, and even some being 
directed right at my forwarding address (with netforward claiming that 
that address is kept private).

As far as I know G-mail has to run off advertising. Not surprised the 
spam thing has set in.

Hmmm... yes. Best be getting an anti-spam service or something.

G.