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[misterx]

I don't even bother deleting it anymore. Gmail deletes it after 30 days on a rolling basis.

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[palmir.livejournal.com]

Since I never use my gmail account, but it's a dictionary-type word (duckie), so instead of getting spam I get really interesting legitimate mail.

For example, I've received several emails (some internal) from a real estate firm, as well as a username/password confirmation from an online game website. My favorite so far is one titled "RE: Merit testing...", a response to an inquiry about (surprisingly) merit testing, which this university apparently uses to test job applicants. The responder essentially (and politely!) said that it was a stupid question - they're tests, you take them, our hiring people for whatever department look at them and let you know if you qualify.

I first found someone erroneously using my email when I signed in and found something like 3000 unread messages - all "return to sender," since someone had put my address as his reply-to. That one I made sure to clear up; the rest, I keep for amusement (and, in the case of the username/password, change my email out of the info on the site).

[barefoot-dyke.livejournal.com]

i've tried to not delete it .... but i am so neurotic about that. i let it get into a few hundred, but i couldn't help it ... i had to empty it. lol

but i do appreciate how well their spam catcher works

[chelchik.livejournal.com]

wow, that's so much!

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

Dude, I have 11. What are you doing with that e-mail address?

[nordlicht.livejournal.com]

I got none... no clue what you´re doing ;)

[thisisnotmyname.livejournal.com]

lol i dont use my gmail account for anything other than lj and various important stuff.

my hotmail account gets the brunt of the spam force, and the only way to catch it all there is to set the shit to exclusive, which is a royal pain the patoot.

burn hotmail, burn!

[misterx.livejournal.com]

The misaddressed stuff is fun... I've had people send me risque pictures, invite me to luncheons, gossip about their girlfriends, etc.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

having them come in constantly finally pushed me over the neurotic hump. i let them accumulate now.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, go me!

[misterx.livejournal.com]

*@misterx.com is forwarded to it, and I've had that domain since '98. Someone else had it before me.

I've been resisiting doing away with the wildcard, it's so nice to be able to make up addresses on the fly when registering with sites and such, but I may have to move to specific addresses. Problem is, I don't recall everything I've created. :)

[misterx.livejournal.com]

Would you like some? I could set up a forwarder. :)

[misterx.livejournal.com]

Gmail does a great job of spam filtering, some of the best I've seen.

[papayas.livejournal.com]

whoah.

sometimes, i wonder if the spam that is sent is created by the gmail people to make it look as though their filter is really good...

[misterx.livejournal.com]

no, that was all going to my regular pop account before. I redirected it to gmail.

I redid my email setup today though, it's cutting down on it considerably.