[WikiEN-l] OT gmail spam increase?

[Garion96]

On 8/29/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry to post such an incredibly lame off topic. Over the last week,
> the amount of spam getting through gmail's filters has gone up hugely
> for me. It's coming in through the 5 or so email addresses I have that
> forward to the same account in equal measure, so I can't blame one
> email address suddenly getting extra exposure. Has anyone else
> experienced like this? I was previously getting around 1 spam a day
> making it through the filter, but now it's like 10 or even more per
> day. Lots of it is a weird, right-justified format, all nonsense text
> (jumbled quotations from something or other) whose purpose I can't
> divine...
>
> Thanks anyone for any observations, comments etc.
>
> Steve


Lame response to a lame off topic post :) but yes, I am getting more spam
recently. Most from viagra and such. I only use this e-mail for the wiki
mailing lists so I assume someone is collecting e-mails from that.

Garion96