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8 Apr 2008, 10:30 PM | #1 | |
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Gmail being throttled, blocked by some anti-spam vendors
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9 Apr 2008, 02:48 AM | #2 |
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it's probably not particularly relevant to the topic, but I think AOL is quietly becoming the best of the "big" services.
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Sooner or later, we will have to focus on the real issue... the people behind the crime. Of course though, it is fashionable to look the other way when it is google, or laugh and say how bad MS is when it happens to MS. |
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Gmail would just have to find better ways to monitor its system for abuse. I already see lots of spammers using gmail as a drop box (that is advertising an email address as a conract address in spam they send. the fact that they keep using the same Gmail mailboxes in subsequent spam messages suggests that it works for them and Gmail doesn't monitor such abuse. Perhaps they will now need to be more active in preventing abuse of their system. |
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16 Apr 2008, 08:01 AM | #6 |
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So this would suggest that privacy concerns are unwarranted. If Google were looking through our personal email then they'd also be looking through that of the spammers and doing something about it.
Another question, as I'm mulling using Google Apps with my own domain, will this SMTP problem still be there if I'm using my own domain or wil my domain also be usable as an SMTP server? |
16 Apr 2008, 06:50 PM | #7 |
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I'm a noob so don't trust my advice but many years of using smtp tells me that it is the ISP that decide on it unless you use alternative ports to go out like 587 and 465.
But some ISP monitor them too. Sometimes port 26 works or 3535. So hopefully somebody good at setting up smtp and google apps could give you reliable advice. |
17 Apr 2008, 12:29 AM | #8 |
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So far I have no problem with Gmail. Since Gmail is still beta I am sure they will improve the system to reduce spamming activities.
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Far as spammers... think we are talking about sending email... I'm not sure if anyone suggested that google reads your outgoing email. But the volume of email sent and recieved everyday makes the notion that a person at google reads your particular inbox absurd. I have a feeling no one on this board is that special (including yours truely). |
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Drew is on Beta. Read his views with caution. Still buggy. |
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