Spam?

Since registering at this forum yesterday, there's been an increase in the amount of spam that is getting through gmail's automatic spam filter.

I don't know if there's a connection, but this "security" forum is the first new site I've registered at using that email account in several weeks. Kind of ironic.

 

I don't think there's a connection based on my experience signing up here, but I don't use gmail. I use Hotmail which is particularly effective against spam.

It would be interesting to hear from others on this.

Other than spam, I hope you get some useful stuff here.

 

I wasn't suggesting that this forum would have affected gmail's spam filter. Obviously it can't.

I was questioning whether somehow registering at the forum might have led to my email address getting picked up by spammers who are not yet recognized by gmail's spam filters (which in my experience are very good.)

 

Oh I wasn't questioning if the forum itself was spamming or provinding my email to others. They'd be insane to do that.

Was just noting the coincidence.

 

"Post hoc ergo proctor hoc" -- the Latin might be misspelled, it's been a decade -- is the fallacy above referenced, folks.

Back to the germane: frankly I consider this forum a mitzvah. So, miss, what else have you done [on the World Wide Wait] lately?

Love,

Peregrine

 

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really?

I have an account that is setup just to test email to/from clients - it is NEVER used as a general box or for everyday use - each time I log into it (every couple of weeks) - I see at least a couple of hundred new spam msgs... and I wonder how they ever got the address!

 

In my around 8 months of membership here I have never been spamed from wilders. I almost never get spam.I However use T-Bird If that makes any difference.The only thing I have received from here besides knowledge,was a few private messages from welcomed members and mods for a spaken or two when I was a bad boy

 

Hello,

I suspect this has more to do with vulnerabilities in the security of Google's Gmail than anything to do with this forum. As mentioned here a couple of months ago, the technique GMail uses to prevent fraudulant sign-ups has been cracked, allowing spammers to more easily abuse this mail provider. I have a GMail account and have noticed an increase in spam over the past few weeks that has made it through Google's own spam filters.

I suspect it is just a temporary problem until Google introduces new security measures to resolve the vulnerability.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

 

I get a lot of spam at gmail but their spam filter stops 100% of it before it ever gets to my inbox

bigc

 

Same here as bigc.
A lot of spam on Gmail, but that started way before I joined Wilders.
Since then, haven't start getting spam in the inbox.

 

Heheh,

"...propter hoc." Otherwise, you got it just right. It is one of the most common causal fallacies.

Yours,

David