Fuddland

My Gmail address has never appeared on any webpage.

It’s never been used to sign up for anything.

It is, in fact, known to and used by only a handful of people, all of whom I am sure do not work for, nor have they ever worked for, nor do any of their family members work for, an organisation in the business of collecting email addresses for passing on to spamming organisations.

So why are there fourteen twenty-seven unsolicted emails sitting in Gmail’s Spam folder, offering me the best software that also doubles as a Rolex watch which is better than V1agracodin?

[Of course I know it’s probably because they just send out billions of emails to common-names-and-perhaps-a-few-digits@gmail.com and see which ones don’t bounce. I wish someone would decide if Lycos’s screensaver is legal or not.]

#1

Damian | 2004 / 12 / 04 – 11:45

I have a similar thing, apparently damianbonner can get cheap software and I need Vicodin.

I was quite offended by that.

Only three spam here though.

#2

Jann | 2004 / 12 / 04 – 11:52

Yeah, I only had three spams in my gmail and my Lycos screensaver went into “stay tuned” mode at some point during the week.

#3

Jann | 2004 / 12 / 04 – 16:07

…and I had two pieces of toast with marmite and a cup of tea for breakfast…

#4

Richard | 2004 / 12 / 04 – 17:59

I got a gmail account a while back, just to see what it was like. I have sent a grand total of one message from it. The email address has been disclosed to just one person and that was the person who invited me.

After reading your entry I logged into gmail and found 8 spam messages waiting for me.

#5

Daisy | 2004 / 12 / 06 – 15:40

Strangely enough, I’ve been using it for quite a few signups and haven’t had any spam (yet).

#6

Neil T. | 2004 / 12 / 14 – 20:25

Glad to see it wasn’t just me that noticed the increase in spam then.

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