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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)
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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 02:08:14 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vfk6du$1lph$1@gal.iecc.com>, John Levine  <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
>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.
>

https://www.nk.ca/blog/index.php?/categories/14-Google-Spam

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>Regards,
>John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
>Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly


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