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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: No, Spamhaus does not slam Gmail and other e-mailing lists services for  spamming
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 01:53:02 -0000 (UTC)
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It appears that Grant Taylor  <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> said:
>That being said, one page I'm looking at says that "Gmail has over 1.8 
>million users worldwide as of 2024."

That's off by three orders of magnitude.  It's more like 1.8 billion
which means a million spammers would be under 0.l%.

I am no happier than anyone else at the constant stream of spam I
get from throwaway Gmail accounts pitching sleazy SEO or virtual
assistants or whatever, but I also realize they have vast numbers
of real users.

But since Spamhaus has not in fact listed Gmail, why are we having
this conversation?  The guy who posted the first message has, uh,
a well known active imagination.

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