From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 7 17:29:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB32116A417 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:29:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7496013C4CC for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:29:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m17HPjMV024957; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:25:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id m17HPi03024956; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:25:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:25:44 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: Erik Osterholm , Jonathan Franks , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080207172544.GA24848@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20080206004405.M9353@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <47A9B6AB.30505@pixelhammer.com> <20080206152432.W3704@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080207000706.GA19437@aleph.cepheid.org> <20080207014107.GA22094@aleph.cepheid.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080207014107.GA22094@aleph.cepheid.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Subject: Re: OT: www search engines X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:29:17 -0000 On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:41:07PM -0600, Erik Osterholm wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:32:44PM -0500, Jonathan Franks wrote: > > On Feb 6, 2008, at 7:07 PM, Erik Osterholm wrote: > > > > ..... > > > > Then there's the issue of spam and spam blocking. Google does a great > > > > job of blocking spam. > > > > Really? I can't say that I've had the same experience. I'd say that 80 > > percent of what ends up in my inbox is unadulterated spam. > > I still use it for similar reasons as you, but I can't agree on this > > point. > > -Jonathan > > That's pretty interesting. I started keeping statistics on my spam > count becuase it was so rare. Since I started using Gmail (shortly > after they launched), the most I've gotten in a month is 4 spam > messages hitting my inbox. I assume that the reason I get more spam on my regular account than on my gmail account is that my regular account is pointed to by all the mailto: links in my web page and that my regular account is the one subscribed to all the various lists I am in. Those show up in archives in various places. Whereas I never give my gmail account to anything and rarely even give it to friends. In spite of that obscurity, my gmail account still gets a small amount of spam regularly. ////jerry > > Erik > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"