GMail’s Spam Filter On Vacation?
By Nathan Weinberg
Expert Author
Article Date: 2005-10-18
Randy has had a very frustrating day. City workers laying sod cut the cables of his internet connection at least a half dozen times ...
... then when it got fixed, he got spammed all over the place, through GMail.
The solution to the *MXON* and ‘viagara' spam is to start creating your own filter rules :
"I've had to start writing my own Gmail SPAM filters today. I've received hundreds of SPAM with the phrase *MXON* in it. They are almost identical, except for the number of *'s. This seems to escape Gmail's SPAM filter and I've setup a rule to forward anything with that string to the Trash (you can't send it to the SPAM bin with a rule). "
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Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog, offering the latest news and insights about Google and search engines.
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