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He's saying the @gmail.com domain is useless to him, because it he gets so much spam from it.

I could certainly see that being the case, and if you can block the whole domain and whitelist the few contacts you actually have, it probably could work decently well.



Yep, exactly.

I was also wondering if I am the only one seeing this. Very large uptick of @gmail.com spam in my inbox.


I experienced it maybe a couple of months ago. Then it went away. Since so many use gmail, it's only logical for the spammers to focus on playing gmail filters and one obvious factor would be using a gmail address as the source.


My filters apparently are catching it pretty well, but 32/203 on my work email are gmail spams.

I think they're focusing on it because so many systems have hard-coded rules to let gmail through because "it is email".




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