News By Tom Brownsword

Just a quick note: I’m guessing that Google has tweaked the spam filters for their Gmail application. If you have a Gmail account, check the spam folder; messages you were expecting may have ended up there.

This is not at all unsuspected. Some idiots have been selling some tool that claims to “put your message in front of millions of Gmail users” and it only costs about $20, so the wallets of the gullible are being sucked dry while our spam boxes are getting filled with more emails trying to get us to purchase that spam blaster… *SIGH*

Of course, a new round of Storm emails is making the rounds, and the pron spam seems to have picked up a lot over the past couple of weeks, too.

And we won’t even mention those clueless marketers who, having otherwise great skills, think that finding an email address somewhere gives them permission to send you a marketing email every five minutes (S.F. and C.M. come to mind).

I have received two emails within the past half hour from lists that I’ve been subscribed to for a long time. I’ve never had a spam problem from those lists (meaning that their emails have never been labeled as spam; neither one of the people, in my opinion, would ever stoop so low as to send spam). Both messages, one from Jonathan Leger and the other from Liz Tomey, ended up in the spam folder of my Gmail account.

So check your spam folder in your Gmail account for the next few days to be safe. Otherwise you may end up deleting an email that you really wanted.

And “thanks” to Google for doing such an awesome job with Gmail.

Thanks for listening,
Tom