I'm already being spammed on my gmail

[gusl]

How this happened I don't know. When I make a brand-new address on optimizelife.com, it doesn't get spammed immediately, except perhaps for dictionary attacks.
I haven't even told anyone my gMail address! (and I'm not going to)

Can Google be suspected?

Edit: so my way of coping with this is automatically archiving or deleting anything sent to my GoogleMail address, as well as anything not specifically sent to one of my spam-free emails at optimizelife.com .

Edit #2: some spam I cannot even determine how it got to me, which email address they sent the spam to. For example this is the header of such a spam:

Delivered-To: myaccount@gmail.com
Received: by 10.11.116.32 with SMTP id o32cs986cwc;
Thu, 10 Jun 2004 04:54:14 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.11.99.2 with SMTP id w2mr157406cwb;
Thu, 10 Jun 2004 04:54:13 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <zuuyedph@nodeception.com>
Received: from 216.104.161.41 (HELO mx2.domaindiscover.com)
by mx.gmail.com with SMTP id o71si1582844cwc;
Thu, 10 Jun 2004 04:54:13 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mx6.daemonmail.net (mx6.daemonmail.net [216.104.160.36])
by mx2.domaindiscover.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622302BA9D
for <5eb73vaba6xnd7px6ge57j2z9@emailaddressprotection.com>; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 04:54:13 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from gaymailpics.com (unknown [221.124.131.202])
by mx6.daemonmail.net (Postfix) with SMTP id D61D51BB99
for <5eb73vaba6xnd7px6ge57j2z9@emailaddressprotection.com>; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 04:54:10 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from dgs (unknown [207.201.82.14])
by gaymailpics.com (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id J87Gz054276674
for <5eb73vaba6xnd7px6ge57j2z9@emailaddressprotection.com>; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:33:21 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <872789523842.GqSF81Ri366OjA@nodeception.com>
From: "Robena Wilcox" <zuuyedph@nodeception.com>
To: 5eb73vaba6xnd7px6ge57j2z9@emailaddressprotection.com
Subject: Any software - very low prices
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:33:21 -0400 (EDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: phpmailer [version 1.62]
X-Priority: 3

Comments

[spritedreams.livejournal.com]

that sucks! how long have you had the account?

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

When it happened, less than 24 hours.

[peamasii.livejournal.com]

I'm just curious, what kind of anti-spam are they running at Google gmail? I figure they're pretty savvy so they'd have at least a minimal spamassassin + clam av setup. But then again, they might be saving that for paying accounts only?

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

The good thing about gmail is that everything is searchable, including the help. But they say nothing about spam filters explicitly. This was the most relevant info I found:

"The more spam you mark, the better we'll get with weeding out those annoying messages. If you or we should happen to goof and mark a good message as spam, click on the Not Spam button at the top of the message."

[peamasii.livejournal.com]

I like their G search technology, the API and their engine are quite good.

ok, so they must have some learning mechanism going on. then you should be able to mark the spam and not see similar stuff at the very least.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

I assume the learning mechanism is Google-wide, so your contribution means little... but why should I depend on a probabilistic filter when I have a logical solution?

[peamasii.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure of what solution you are talking about, but here are some interesting stats on gmail's spam filtering:
http://taint.org/2004/04/15/033025a.html

[melodica.livejournal.com]

weird. didn't you just get it?

my login at gmail is a 7-letter common dictionary word. no spam yet, and i've sent e-mail to numerous friends and signed myself up for the various mailing lists i'd subscribed to through yahoomail and elsewhere. nothing in my spam folder, even.

i really doubt google would spam anyone in the beta phase if they wanted gmail to take off. but we'll see....

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

I seem to have an uncanny talent for making software break. I'm a natural!

I'm also often the exceptional case in bureaucratic affairs.

Through the cracks I fall...

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

I haven't received any spam at gmail yet, and I've been using it for a month or two. If you're forwarding other accounts there, then it must be something related to those.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

hmm.. that could be, but:

* I don't remember getting very much spam recently
* the original account that received it should show up somewhere in this huge header, shouldn't it? But only the gmail account appears.