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there's no way a bot could get to your email since July 13th, and I'm not sure you even had GMail then... I haven't had any spam the whole time I've got it. Are you sure you haven't written it on a forum somewhere, though. I have, but never in its actual form. Spider, I don't know what your address is, but if it's something 'obvious' it could just be guessed by a spam generating thingy. They send out a lot of emails to random addresses not knowing whether or not they exist..


The only message board that could have shown my email is the google message board. I posted a suggestion about gmail there. That's the only time I used my email on any forum besides this one.
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Well then. Any bot trawling the public Google newsgroup will get your address quite easily.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=theletterc

I don't know how well carried it is, but I can get to that newtgroup at news://news.karoo.co.uk/google.public.support.general

Typo above, but I think I'll leave it.
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Well how else was I supposed to post at their news groups =\ Damn! So that's where the spam came from..
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C1, I've got my gmail address plastered everywhere in forums, threads, my site contact page and many other places and I've yet to recieve a single piece of SPAM. The filter is excellent.

The only way you could've recieved that SPAM is if someone entered your email into a site that sends the email advertising and whatnot.

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Today I got 10 spam emails today. I never opened them, but there titles of things I have never seen. I haven't submited my email to any sites and I haven't posted it anywhere, so the spam must have came from somewhere. I think it was from gmail to show how well there Spam filter works..


Did you know there is always the possiblity of one of your buddies playing a trick on you by anon e-mailing its a kind of hacking tequnique that i am farmilliar with I wouldnt think much of it

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