MetaChat - In Soviet Russia, Spam eats you!

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03 July 2005

In Soviet Russia, Spam eats you! Dear Bunny: I love my Gmail account, and get almost no spam - except for Russian spam, which I get quite a lot of. (No, I have no idea why.) Gmail allows one to filter with "Has the words:___", but not "Has any of the words___", which would make it pretty easy to just drop in a ton of (Cyrillic) text from a few of these, and have messages with any of those words sent straight to "Trash". Is there anything else that I can do with a filter to keep these from showing up in my inbox? Sbasiba.

post by: taz at: 04:11 | 16 comments

Weird. The majority of the spam in my gmail spam box is Chinese, with the occasional Korean ones.

Does gmail filter with Unicode enabled? Maybe you could create a filter for each character in the cyrillic unicode set.

posted by loquacious 03 July | 05:50

Okay, I've done that with 14 characters (some were just identical to Latin or Greek characters, and made me nervous!), and deleted all my trash, so I'll see what effect this will have, if any.

posted by taz 03 July | 06:25

damn it taz, i just sent you an email in russian!

posted by dhruva 03 July | 06:53

Did you really? Because I just checked my (just-emptied) trash, and indeed there's a Russian spam love note in there.

posted by taz 03 July | 06:56

no no, not that one :) It's just that i recently inherited some money from a tsar uncle and ...

posted by dhruva 03 July | 07:31

you want to give me a Faberge egg? That would be so cool, 'cuz I don't have even one Faberge egg so far!

Anyway, it seems like maybe this method is working...

posted by taz 03 July | 07:57

ok here you go :)
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posted by dhruva 03 July | 08:07

Aw!!! (and big, too!)

posted by taz 03 July | 08:24

So, I now have nine Russian spam mails in my trash, and none in my inbox, and loquacious, you da man! Thanks!

posted by taz 04 July | 00:59

that sounds dirty!

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but i got this for you anyway
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posted by ethylene 04 July | 01:07

The riches I am amassing! And all in my SPARE TIME. While WORKING FROM HOME. Now I even have A BIGGER PENIS (and it's gold, and I didn't even have a penis before, unless you count Mr. taz).

posted by taz 04 July | 01:17

do you find that when you aren't in "an office" or "studio", people think you're not "working"?
i find it very hard to explain to people i'm "working" even if i'm just "thinking"--

posted by ethylene 04 July | 03:24

i'm going to start calling my head "the lab"

posted by ethylene 04 July | 03:25

That's funny... I was going to start calling my lab "the head".

posted by taz 04 July | 03:33

that took forever in drunk time!

posted by ethylene 04 July | 03:43

Just don't get them confused if you wake up in the middle of the night during a dream about boats and need to visit the little girls' room, will you taz?

posted by dg 04 July | 23:22

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