Stuffleufagus

I’ve experienced Google GMail Spam-Swarms before - but the one today, which only lasted about 15 minutes, was a serious mess.  At one point I was receiving about 1,000 spam emails/minute.  In a 15 minute time span hundreds of spam emails weren’t even marked as spam.

I don’t know why this happens, but I hate it when it does.

Since I am a consultant, most of my new clients come from email addresses I don’t recognize - and often those messages end up in my spam folder.

Usually I can deal with the daily spam, and sort out the real emails.  But when I get thousands of spam emails I just can’t go through them one at a time.

I just delete them - and hope I am not throwing away future business.

I love GMail, and mostly it just works.

But when it doesn’t it is a pain in the butt, and it could cost me money.

Mostly it is annoying when it doesn’t work, because I just expect it to.

And I know - I shouldn’t complain because I can’t beat the price.

But if “free” comes with the price of “maybe it works” then I need to rethink my email strategy. I can’t afford the potential loss of business or the real loss of time dealing with these “spam-swarms”.

All of these screen shots were taken in a five minute period - and at the time I was deleting spam and clearing the spam folder as often as I could.

I couldn’t keep up.  Neither could GMail.

written by rob

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