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- Andrewmatt, on 11/30/2007, -7/+103Wow, blogspam talking about the end of spam.
- socialpyramid, on 11/30/2007, -1/+80Or maybe General Abacha has died enough times already.
- LLamaStar, on 11/30/2007, -0/+58I might get 2-3 spam messages a year to my inbox on my gmail account. The spam filter is awesome.
- whataboutdave, on 11/30/2007, -0/+56"What are you trying to tell me? That I can block spam?"
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"No, Google. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to." - adventflux, on 11/30/2007, -0/+46Well, seeing that less and less people fall prey to spam, then less profit is made. Eventually, it costs more money to stay in "business."
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -17/+61Google is kidding itself. Spammers will never quit, they may just be busy preparing more inane Ron Paul videos.
- CrimsonBlur, on 11/30/2007, -0/+34Once a business is not profitable anymore, generally people give up.
- salmonmoose, on 11/30/2007, -2/+35Obviously they haven't looked at my account - I have a gmail apps account as the catch-all for our domain, and it consistently has 30-40 thousand messages in the spam folder.
I don't know how I'd cope without gmail's awesome filter. - piratearggghhh, on 11/30/2007, -5/+32We need Nigeria block
- Bamborzled, on 11/30/2007, -1/+21Hey, IllBeBack, want some ɐɹƃɐıʌ? (You thought everybody forgot about Unicode "upside-down" text. You were wrong.)
- freshgrease, on 11/30/2007, -1/+20Because they fail?
- RoboRay, on 11/30/2007, -1/+19Anyone who's concerned about spam shouldn't be using Hotmail.
- Spanq, on 11/30/2007, -2/+19Get a Hotmail account and see how much spammers are giving up.
- latrosicarius, on 11/30/2007, -0/+16what???!?!?! you only watchd it once!!????!?? You didn't memorize every line?!?!?!!???
- Dotnetsky, on 11/30/2007, -2/+18Jeesh. It doesn't cost much to be in that business. Not with 40,000 zombie PC's going to work for you each day...
- IllBeBack, on 11/30/2007, -2/+18All the spammers do now is figure out new, creative ways to spell Viagra using symbols and numbers. Losers.
- ACrazyGerman, on 11/30/2007, -3/+18I get like 1 or 2 spam emails a month on my Gmail account.
- probrian, on 11/30/2007, -0/+15car salesman
- gquaglia, on 11/30/2007, -1/+14Certainly not working with hotmail's spam filter. It lets through at least 10-20 junk emails per day. My gmail on the other hand gets none.
- stutimandal, on 11/30/2007, -0/+11I think SPAM mail has been replaced by SPAM forums/web2.0 websites. I don't think Spammers have slowed down on email because of smarter filters. They are investing their finite energy into web2.0 type sites (orkut, blogger, for example). Captcha etc. became necessary because of this shift.
- xswag, on 11/30/2007, -0/+10Do that many people really use Viagra? Gmail spam filters have eliminated almost all my spam and the little bit that slips thru gets flagged and I never see it again.
I don't see spammers giving up though. There are still plenty of suckers out there with no spam filters that will click those links. - KdogTN, on 11/30/2007, -0/+10My Gmail account by far is the best email or web mail I have ever had. I keep a hotmail account for when I have to give an email address for something. It has always had close to 100+ spam a day. My yahoo was close to 50+ a day but my Gmail might get one maby two a week slip through. Spammers are filth and scum and deserve to have their keyboards shoved up their arshes sideways.
- ACrazyGerman, on 11/30/2007, -1/+11If only Digg's spam filter was as great as Google's.
- Buelldozer, on 11/30/2007, -0/+10The Matrix...sheesh.
- daok, on 11/30/2007, -1/+10Go in the spam folder you will see that Spam ain't over.
- volatileacid, on 11/30/2007, -1/+10I don't care what everyone else thinks (no disrespect to you!)
I'll just believe in what I can see - and that is, one of the most effective spam filters i've ever come across. But let's not just thank Google - it's a community effort - and props go out to all those end users who report spam - ensuring cleaner mail boxes for us all.
Furthermore, when the odd Nigerian slips through the net with his proposal - what I do (before marking it as spam), is look for the contact email address he wants me to mail him back at - which usually turns out to be a free email account - and forward it to that domain prefixed with an: "abuse@" - I tell you what - i've had a few of their mailboxes closed down this way..
I like my approach - as well talk about things- do something about it! - webdevil, on 11/30/2007, -0/+9Politician?
- smackhero, on 11/30/2007, -1/+9i wonder what someone who's spent the last 10 years of their life spamming people instead of developing useful job skills is going to choose for a new career.
- capiCrimm, on 11/30/2007, -1/+9so these 93' fords are really '08 Priuses. They're just disguised so the Nigerian Prince could smuggle them through customs cheap? SOLD!!!
- TopDerek, on 11/30/2007, -0/+8Google, taking over the world one unemployed spammer at a time
- sgyoung, on 11/30/2007, -1/+8I always wondered, do people actually buy stuff with spam? Does it actually work?
- PinkoComrade, on 11/30/2007, -1/+8So the futurama movies was a lie?
- Sornos, on 11/30/2007, -0/+7You've totally been scammed. The real money is from Nigeria.
- bjornski, on 11/30/2007, -0/+7Yeah, like those pesky junk-mailers...
oh wait.
Considering it costs almost nothing to send out 100 million e-mails, if even .5% respond, you rake in buckets of money.
They'll never quit. - ButchersBoy, on 11/30/2007, -0/+7That's what happens when you sign up to porn sites.
- betobeto, on 11/30/2007, -0/+7Spammers giving up? That's not what Gmail's spam folder tells me. I still receive dozens of pitches a day to fix my manhood.
- gquaglia, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6If it didn't, then there would be no incentive to continually send it. The world is full of stupid people and many of them own computers.
- ps3udov3ctor, on 11/30/2007, -2/+8I believe that as much as when Dick Cheney says we're winning the war on terror.
- jcaino, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5I work at a web hosting company. Trust me when I say that they are doing NOTHING of the sort. If anything, they've stepped it up over the past 2 months, very noticeable in the past few weeks. They're also varying their attacks to make it harder to zap in one (or 3) fell swoops.
- Delta009, on 11/30/2007, -2/+7I don't know what happened, but it looks like the Gmail spam filter has weakened over the past few weeks.
I'm always careful of whom I give my Gmail address to, but I received since a week or two a few penis enlargement spam in my inbox.
Somebody also posted a comment about this, and it happened to me too, so I think it might be the spam filter going nuts... - petard, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5that would be stupid if they did that, they would never get replies and money.
- bigbadgoat, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5matrix, you idiot.
except it was about dodging bullets. - ispshadow, on 11/30/2007, -0/+5Please just don't say that spam is in it's "last throes"...ok?
I'm just basing that on past experience.... - lnxfi, on 11/30/2007, -1/+6I think hotmail accounts come preloaded with spam.
- freshgrease, on 11/30/2007, -4/+9Don't forget East European and Russian. I get those all the time on my gmail account for pr0n signups.
- bjornski, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4But then Ron Paul and the iPhone would have no publicity.
- thpeyton, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/11/googl ...
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4They CAN'T be ... I'm still waiting for my 3 million from Nairobi
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4yes infomercials work, ask me how i got these knives at incredible savings
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