Ok, I just don’t get this…
back when Google started with gmail, I thought I would see what all the buzz was about. I was under impressed because it was no different than all the other webmail systems out there.
Today, I logged into the account. It had never been used to SEND or receive email, so there is no way anyone would have know it existed. When I logged in, the account had over 200 messages of SPAM!
This gives me a very high confidence that someone has sold the entire Gmail database to a spam house. The email address I was using was a very random set of characters and numbers. Now you know why I am so paranoid about not trusting any other companies to host my services. If they sold mailing lists, what else are they selling?
Oh, I doubt it…. Dictionary spammers stop at nothing, as anyone with a catch-all email address can tell you. I finally had to disable my catch-alls because they were being flooded with SPAM by spammers that would just go through random sequences of letters and numbers (starting with a@domain.com, aa@domain.com, etc etc).
Incidentally, if you decide to use gmail, you may want to try this:
http://snipeyhead.livejournal.com/97927.html