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Default "OT" How many here use Gmail?

Doug Miller wrote:

In article Y%8Wj.66582$5Y1.2907@trnddc04, evodawg
wrote:
I'm thinking seriously about KILLFILING all Gmail and was wondering how
many actual use it to post????


It's much more effective to killfile all posts that came through
GoogleGroups.

Consider:
1) Nearly all Usenet spam now is posted through GoogleGroups.
2) Many of these spam posts are tagged with email addresses that are NOT
at gmail.com.
3) Many legitimate posters use email addresses at gmail.com but do NOT
post through GoogleGroups.

Thus, killfiling gmail will miss a lot of the spam, and kill a lot of
posts that aren't spam.

How to do this has been discussed extensively on a number of newsgroups,
including this one, in the last month or so.

Took your advice and Killfiled GoogleGroups using the instructions available
through the website you suggested. Guess if any member of gmail posts here
I can always read the replies.

Thanks,
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