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I have written many times before about how great the anti-spam feature of Gmail is. (12,064 today and counting, by the way.)

Today I wanted to share some tips that I have picked up which aid considerably with my Gmail usage: dot & plus addressing.

Gmail addresses are much like any other e-mail addresses out there and are in the format yourname@gmail.com. No surprises there. Where it gets interesting is that you can alter the e-mail address you give out to others (including web sites) and they are all delivered to the same mailbox in Gmail. (Continued)

In a previous post, I commented on just how much spam I had received during a one-month time frame. At the time of the post, on 17 November, I had acquired 5,481 spam e-mail messages.

A little under a month later, on 12 December, I updated the post to indicate that the total number of e-mail messages in my spam folder had risen to 7,184.

Now, (Continued)

So, a little under a month ago, I wrote about the global e-mail plague.

Well, It seems as though things have gotten worse. As of this writing, the spam filter on my e-mail client of choice has nabbed 10,686 messages.

Since e-mail older than 30-days automatically gets trashed, that means I have received almost 11,000 spam messages in a month.

Wow.

Amazing.

The “spam” folder on my e-mail client of choice has acquired 5481 messages since October 15th. That is a lot of junk mail.

Surprisingly, it seems to be getting worse. My e-mail client automatically deletes spam messages older than 30-days, and that folder normally hovers around the 2500 mark. So, in the past month, it appears to have gotten twice as bad as normal. Crazy.

How is it that people who send this junk are still around? (Continued)