Policy update: Google’s gmail is now banned due to spam

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I’ve been resisting doing this, but I have to face facts – most of our spam comes attached to a Google Gmail account. As of today, I have banned Gmail since Google has failed to stop the avalanche of spam coming from them.

Google once meant trust, but now it means spam.

File this OM as #Internet

Have you checked to see how many current / genuine accounts use GMail? I’d suggest a rethink, the fact that GMail is one of the largest email providers around means that statistically a larger proportion of spam will come from them.

Blocking GMail will probably alienate a lot of genuine subscribers

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