Monday, March 20, 2023

Moon just after DST time change, Spam and Gmail


 I took this moon photo last Wednesday at about 7.30 am, just a few days after the DST time change.

My spam folder has been full of at least a hundred messages per day, do  you clear yours?  Some have been genuine comments from as far back as 2010!

Well I finished clearing out old gmail messages, it was a marathon few weeks.  I had gotten a storage warning, since I started using Gmail back in 2006 it seems.  I am down from over 10,000 messages to over 3,000 now.  I have not looked at my sent folder, apparently that also counts.

And welcome to Spring, apparently it arrives at 5.24 pm this evening!


30 comments:

Kay said...

I don't know what to do about that Spam folder. I used to clear it out. But then I thought maybe keeping it on there alerts the Blogger technicians. I don't know.

Kay said...

I don't know if this is true, but I found this answer on the blogger help thing:
https://support.google.com/blogger/thread/31656680?hl=en

This person says you should keep the spam in your folder so it can train the bot to recognize it as spam.

Hilly Nicolay said...

It's really spring now Christine!

Angie's Recipes said...

I clear my spam folder almost daily...some spams are so ridiculous.
Beautiful moon shot!

ashok said...

Nice pic.
Iam clearing my spam folder almost on a weekly basis nowadays

Charlotte (MotherOwl) said...

Yes, I clean out my spam filters, as real comments are put there by some quirk of Blogger's. Aslo e-mail spam, where some long awaited mails were hidden, so now I look, delete or free as appropriate once a day.

I will be greeting Spring at 5.24 ... I just have to figure out when that is my time ;)

Ivy's Closet said...

Oh, G-Mail can take a while to see too. I did check my spam after reading your post. Thanks! Lovely photo!

My name is Erika. said...

I've been cleaning out old junk too as I had the same message from Google about a month ago. Happy spring and good luck with your cleaning.

Anonymous said...

yes I do check my gmail spam folder and I clear out deleted messages etc too at least every 2 weeks-it really adds up
we had a sliver moon early morning over the lake a couple days ago was pretty cool to see too.
Happy new week Kathy

gigi-hawaii said...

I delete my inbox regularly but not the sent mail. I really don't know how to delete my spam so I just let Akismet take care of it.

Tanza Erlambang said...

have a wonderful Spring

Red said...

You remind me that I have to get busy and clear some messages. I check spam every few days to rescue a few posts.

Anonymous said...

Happy spring, Christine! I used to have a lot of messages in spam that I needed to clear out regularly, some of them from people that shouldn't be there. Now there is much less but still not at zero.

Martha Jane Orlando said...

I never even think to empty/check my spam folder. Maybe, I should!

Busy Bee Suz said...

That's a lovely moon capture.
Spam adds up quickly!!

Valerie-Jael said...

I look at my comments every day, so haven't had a build up until now!

baili said...

good reminder friend
i will try to clear my email box ,never did it before

beautiful image of moon

Hena Tayeb said...

I do. I have discovered a few very important emails land in my spam and now have made habit of checking it all the time.

Pam said...

Merriest Spring day to you.

Ane said...

Sim, mudança de estação! É animador, não é?
Eu esvazio minha caixa de e-mails, principalmente
a lixeira, é bom fazer esta limpeza!
Beijos! :)

roentare said...

I checked my spam folder daily. However, the access to the blogger admin page has been problematic. Plus the difficult handling of the blogspot platform via a phone device overseas.

Lowcarb team member said...

I clear the spam folder almost daily...

Happy first day of Spring :)

All the best Jan

peppylady (Dora) said...

Happy Spring.
Coffee is on and stay safe.

Sandra Cox said...

That's a lot of email clearing. I fear mine is in no better shape:(

J.P. Alexander said...

Ten una buena semana. Te mando un beso.

The Velvet Runway said...
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The Velvet Runway said...

Beautiful photo! And, yes, I get a lot of Spam too!
Julia x
https://www.thevelvetrunway.com/

Lorraine said...

I've unsubscribed to many things, cleaned out my e-mail, filed things in folders, but still can't seem to manage it all.

Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...

I deleted 27 comments this morning from as far back as 2010. I was able to save 9 that were not spam, too. busy morning here.

The Happy Whisk said...

I digital declutter often. I don't like extra crap hanging about in inboxes. Sadly, Blogger puts real comments in spam that like you mentioned, were from awhile ago. So odd. Happy Spring & Boogie Boogie!