Fighting (Gmail) Spam

General Topics
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http://howtotroubleshoot.blogspot.com/2007/09/fight-email-spam.html

What are the pros and cons of the approach suggested in the above link?

2

Spam is cleared automatically every 30 days. If it bothers you,
every once in a while, open the spam folder and press the “Delete all spam messages now” and click OK
Since there isn’t ever any space problem, this is the easiest way to handle spam on Google.
Anything else is to much like work. ;D

3

I see no reason to make that rule because Gmail will do it automatically. As recycle bin, spam folder is emptied from time to time, automatically.

4

You don’t even have to look at the spam count if you don’t want to. Install the Better Gmail extension, and choose the option to hide the spam count. Then, as suggested above, let nature take it’s course…

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4866

Edit:

That’s for Firefox of course. I don’t know if there is a similar option for either IE or Opera.

5

Thank you all for replies. I was more concerned about their advice below.

Quote:
To make the process automatic, I set up a filter in my Gmail so that anything flagged as ‘spam’ is automatically forwarded to spam@uce.gov:
Unquote:

Is this a good thing to do?

They have suggested sending them to SpamCop but SapmCop needs full header and an automatic forward will not include full header.

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If you think it will make a difference, why not.

From your link:

[QUOTE]Apparently, they use these forwarded emails much like advertisers use data for data mining. They try to build profiles and associate spam with certain activities/people for future prosecution.
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I won’t speak for the other responders, but personally, I just ignore spam. I hide the spam count, and after 30 days, it’s gone.

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I would second OC’s comment, ignore spam completely, never respond in any way and that includes reporting it. Life is to short and all this does is add to the email traffic, just imigine what would happen if everyone did that it could bring some email servers too their knees as you would be effectively doubling email traffic.

There is a reason that SpamCop wants full headers, without it there really is no way to accurately track where an email came from, so what spam @ uce.gov would be able to do without this information I would say is negligible.