• May 18th, 2007
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  • Work

Serves up with some funny contextual (yet surprisingly accurate?) ads from time to time on quibblo.com.

Popularity: 4% [?]

• May 17th, 2007
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  • Google

This morning was the final straw. Although Gmail spam protection is a godsend, I don’t see how so many Russian emails make it into my inbox (Perhaps relatives of Sergey?). I cannot read sputnik - yet apparently spammers think I’m interested in whatever they’re offering.

I did some sleuthing and found that the character ? is common and stands by itself in most spams. English translation according to Google и == AND. I did a couple test searches and this seem to work well - so here’s what I came up with.

1. Create a new filter in Gmail (Settings > Filters)
2. Has The Words: и (Next Step)
3. x Delete (Create)

Spam free (for the most part) again!

UPDATE

I still got some Russian Spam THIS morning! Time for another filter.

1. Create a new filter in Gmail (Settings > Filters)
2. Has The Words: до (Next Step)
3. x Delete (Create)

Popularity: 9% [?]