300 a day no joke
Care Bear
one thing done. If your not on my contact list then I wont get your
email, plane and simple. My husband seams to remember this option they
had at one time but cant seam to find it any more, did they remove it?
A little help if someone would please, the best thing I could ask for
is block all email but those on my contacts and the abilities to add
domains that are ok to receive email from. Any help with this would be
greatly appreciated.
Thank-you for your time.
Care Bear
Nick Chirchirillo
Personally, I think a "block every person that is not on my contact list" option is not a very good idea. I have many things sent to my email address that I just don't want on my contact list such as my bank and credit cards and several mailing lists that I willingly signed up for. There is no need to clutter up my contact list with email addresses that I know I will NEVER email. Plus, what happens if you don't know the email address of something/someone that is trying to email you? You will never get the first email to give you their address which means you will not be able to add them to your contact list so that you can "unblock" it.
-Nick
Care Bear
cant be stopped. Instead of a contacts list filtering, what about a
expectable domains list? or expectable email list. This means that you
would only receive email form those on your contact list or in some
cases where you don't know the email address you can simply add the
domain, a side from that what's wrong with them having to post a
source email. If I want email from babiesrus.com on there sales then
when I ask for that service and fill out the form they would provide
me with a source email address and I can add that to my list. If
people cant receive spam than what's the point of trying to send it?
On Apr 12, 10:51 am, Nick Chirchirillo <nickma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, spam is a fact of email. The only way to avoid spam is to
> stop using an email address. Are the spam messages you're getting being
> caught by the filter? If so, what's the big deal? They stay neatly away
> from your Inbox and you never have to worry about them. If they aren't
> being caught, you have to report them as spam, and soon they will be
> filtered.
>
> Personally, I think a "block every person that is not on my contact list"
> option is not a very good idea. I have many things sent to my email address
> that I just don't want on my contact list such as my bank and credit cards
> and several mailing lists that I willingly signed up for. There is no need
> to clutter up my contact list with email addresses that I know I will NEVER
> email. Plus, what happens if you don't know the email address of
> something/someone that is trying to email you? You will never get the first
> email to give you their address which means you will not be able to add them
> to your contact list so that you can "unblock" it.
>
Ryan Morehart
companies that did filtering like that) that they weren't getting
email they receive. Google chooses the "safe" route of just giving you
everything and showing you its best guess about what's spam and what
isn't. I get a ton of spam a day too, but just either ignore it
(there's a gmail Lab make this easier, look for the one that hides
unread counts) or empty it every couple hours.
Ryan
Nick Chirchirillo
-Nick
Andy
search capabilities, but may not have all the bells and whistles that every
user may think they want. And I like it that way!
But you can add things to enhance its capabilities.
For example, if you use Thunderbird or Outlook Express and download your
emails to your computer, you also have the capabilities of those programs,
which might (and probably does) allow you to do the kinds of filtering that
meet your specific needs.
Besides, about a third of the spam I get ... and I also get around 300 a day
... comes addressed from ME! It is a common technique the spammers use, to
get past the kind of blocking you want Gmail to do. If it hasn't happened
to you yet, it surely will. If they don't use your address, they will use
common domains like gmail.com, which you probably would include in your
whitelist. So I disagree with you that "there is no reason this cant [sic]
be stopped."
Like I say, I also receive hundreds of spams a day, and with few exceptions
they all land in my Spam box where I can just ignore them.
As an alternative, try this: Add a Filter for every person you want on your
whitelist, and have it Label them as "good" or something similar. Then use
the "good" Label as your inbox. There is a Gmail Labs feature called
"Multiple Inboxes" that lets you substitute it for your regular Inbox.
Voila, Gmail now displays only messages from the people you want. This
doesn't take care of clearing any unwanted spam out of your real Inbox or
All Mail; you would need to check that periodically for anything that didn't
go into the Spam box.
Generally speaking, though, Gmail's built-in spam filtering does an
excellent job of finding spam, once 'trained' (by you) to catch the kind of
spam you tend to receive. Gmail's policy of not automatically deleting
spam, but leaving it for 30 days for you to double-check, is vastly superior
to other email services that blindly delete what they think is spam before
we see it. Which is bound to go wrong.
Andy
Care Bear
bash it, I just feel that there has to be a better end to the means.
My husband doest get any spam email and he has had his service for a
few years now, I guess he is a lot more selective about giving out his
email address then I am. Thank-you for you input guys.
Zack (Doc)
it is also... Another part is simply the ability to guess it. Since
your e-mail address appears to be your real name, they can easily
guess it, and/or a program put it together out of "real words". If
your husband has an address that looks more like random letters and no
proper words in it, that makes him safer from the guessing systems.
Abraham Maslow - "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you
tend to see every problem as a nail." -
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/851.html