gmail and spam


I am a user of gmail for about 3 months. The only use of this email account is to get all my mailing lists, and there are a lot of them.

I never used this email account on the web and the email i use for the mailing lists is another one that forwards all the emails to gmail.

The last 3 weeks i get about 2-3 spams a day, with a TO: directly to me. The antispam feature of gmail works ok and all the emails are going directly to the spam folder.

When i created the gmail account i wanted to be spam free, but as far i can see the spammers are using all the compinations for usernames to send spam….. To bad for me 🙁

[b]Edit 21/12/2004, 15:47[/b] Sean Reifschneider, posted today something interesting in his blog [url]http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/jafo_20041219_224403[/url] regarding the same problem as mine. Give it a look and read more on slashdot [url]http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/21/0129252&tid=111&tid=217&tid=215&tid=1[/url]