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Old 05-08-2007, 15:53
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I have several gmail accounts and some have been set up for 2 years that I have not given the address to anybody and I have not had a single spam message in it.

The email addresses of mine that seem to have been targeted are the easier shorter ones rather than the more complicated longer ones. I think a lot of it is guess work by spammers - it costs them very little to send out billions of emails so they can afford to use such tactics.
The spam may be easy to clear, but the fact is that the spam box quickly fills up again. My average is 500 over 2 days - it gets very annoying and that is the reason why I hate GMail.
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