Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Didier..... I once had a free email account. I set up the account, and in the time it took me to go look at my mail, ( What, 20 seconds?) I had 6 spam messages. There were several hundred the next day. Never used that one again.......if you do not pay for it, they have to get revenues from somewhere..... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Didier Ludwig Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 12:28 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: RE: [Leica] OFF-TOPIC: Google mail (gmail) I have a rarely used Gmail address and only my business partner knows it, I have not published it anywhere, but recently got 2 spam mails on it from people selling real estates in Honduras... how could they know the address - probably by generating randomly names - strange... >FWIW, I have a filter on all GMAIL ( and a few other) freebie ISP >addresses. Generally, they are some form of something I do not >want, did not ask for, and otherwise do not wish to receive. I do search >my DELETE folder for emails I have zapped that I really >want, but the number is really pretty small. _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information