[Scspamcop] Re: Whose Gmail account is that?

[Twayne]

> "Twayne" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:g5tson$seh$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>> Want to know who's behind that Gmail account?  Their first and last
>> names? http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1494
>
> Who cares about that?  Gmail users can easily setup their "send mail
> as" preferences to either reflect their real-life name, or any
> fictitious name they desire.
>
> Gmail has a nice spam feature anyway, if you can be bothered to check
> it occasionally for junk email.  I use gmail when I'm pretty sure
> something is going to throw rubbish at me, which is most of the time.
>
> Increasing the spam headed towards gmail users will only increase the
> effectiveness of their spam email filters.  I don't see why any
> spammer would want to do Google a favour.
>
>
> Cheers ...
>
> Geoffrey Hyde

I wondered if the responses here wouldn't be typical of what I 
suspected.  I used to like ZDnet articles but they're so full of, well, 
crap lately they're pretty much useless in their detail.

Thanks guys.  A friend on Gmail put me onto this and was worried; guess 
it's no different than anywhere else.

Twayne