Re: No, Spamhaus does not slam Gmail and other e-mailing lists services for spamming

It appears that Grant Taylor  <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> said:

That being said, one page I'm looking at says that "Gmail has over 1.8
million users worldwide as of 2024."

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That's off by three orders of magnitude.  It's more like 1.8 billion
which means a million spammers would be under 0.l%.
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I am no happier than anyone else at the constant stream of spam I
get from throwaway Gmail accounts pitching sleazy SEO or virtual
assistants or whatever, but I also realize they have vast numbers
of real users.
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But since Spamhaus has not in fact listed Gmail, why are we having
this conversation?  The guy who posted the first message has, uh,
a well known active imagination.
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