Guest bigron2006@gmail.com Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 I run my PC on XP Pro SP2 and use the email address bigron2006@gmail.com as an alternate email address to cut down on spam, etc.in my real life email Recently it has somehow become corrupted and displays everything in a strange, Cyrillic type language (except the email messages, which are in English) I tried reinstalling Gmail to no avail, and I cannot find a language selector. I have also checked my settings in Regional Languages (Control Panel) Your help would be much appreciated. RonaldThomas Gosnells West Australia 17 July 2007
Guest M.I.5¾ Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Re: GMAIL CORRUPTED BY STRANGE CRYLLIC LANGUAGE <bigron2006@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1184665924.036617.206730@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com... >I run my PC on XP Pro SP2 and use the email address > bigron2006@gmail.com as an alternate email address to cut down on > spam, etc.in my real life email I can't think why you would get spam to this e-mail address.
Guest R. McCarty Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Re: GMAIL CORRUPTED BY STRANGE CRYLLIC LANGUAGE Reinstall GMail ? - Do you access it (Google Mail) with the standard web interface ( http://gmail.com ) or as a profile with a mail client such as Outlook Express ? Either way, I'd use the web interface and once logged in, check the "Settings" option located at the upper Right of the main page. <bigron2006@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1184665924.036617.206730@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com... >I run my PC on XP Pro SP2 and use the email address > bigron2006@gmail.com as an alternate email address to cut down on > spam, etc.in my real life email > Recently it has somehow become corrupted and displays everything in a > strange, Cyrillic type language (except the email messages, which are > in English) > I tried reinstalling Gmail to no avail, and I cannot find a language > selector. I have also checked my settings in Regional Languages > (Control Panel) > Your help would be much appreciated. > > RonaldThomas > > Gosnells West Australia > 17 July 2007 >
Guest bigron2006@gmail.com Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Re: GMAIL CORRUPTED BY STRANGE CRYLLIC LANGUAGE On 17 Jul, 18:02, "M.I.5¾" <no....@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote: > <bigron2...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:1184665924.036617.206730@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com... > > >I run my PC on XP Pro SP2 and use the email address > > bigron2...@gmail.com as an alternate email address to cut down on > > spam, etc.in my real life email > > I can't think why you would get spam to this e-mail address. Why? Because whenever I register anything over the Internet I quote my Gmail address. That way scrotes who harvest email addresses for subsequent spam waste their time sending it to my gmail address and not my real email address. It's over 90% effective, so - that's why! And yes, my gmail account is often the target of spam.
Guest bigron2006@gmail.com Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Re: GMAIL CORRUPTED BY STRANGE CRYLLIC LANGUAGE On 17 Jul, 18:04, "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSp...@mindspring.com> wrote: > Reinstall GMail ? - Do you access it (Google Mail) with the standard > web interface (http://gmail.com) or as a profile with a mail client such > as Outlook Express ? > > Either way, I'd use the web interface and once logged in, check the > "Settings" option located at the upper Right of the main page. > > <bigron2...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:1184665924.036617.206730@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com... > > > > >I run my PC on XP Pro SP2 and use the email address > > bigron2...@gmail.com as an alternate email address to cut down on > > spam, etc.in my real life email > > Recently it has somehow become corrupted and displays everything in a > > strange, Cyrillic type language (except the email messages, which are > > in English) > > I tried reinstalling Gmail to no avail, and I cannot find a language > > selector. I have also checked my settings in Regional Languages > > (Control Panel) > > Your help would be much appreciated. > > > RonaldThomas > > > Gosnells West Australia > > 17 July 2007- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - The standard Web interface - no matter what I do it still displays this strange Cyrillic (or maybe Greek?) language. It's the only program affected, so I am at a loss to work it out.
Guest BlastOButter42 Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Re: GMAIL CORRUPTED BY STRANGE CRYLLIC LANGUAGE On Jul 17, 5:52 am, bigron2...@gmail.com wrote: > I run my PC on XP Pro SP2 and use the email address > bigron2...@gmail.com as an alternate email address to cut down on > spam, etc.in my real life email > Recently it has somehow become corrupted and displays everything in a > strange, Cyrillic type language (except the email messages, which are > in English) > I tried reinstalling Gmail to no avail, and I cannot find a language > selector. I have also checked my settings in Regional Languages > (Control Panel) > Your help would be much appreciated. > > RonaldThomas > > Gosnells West Australia > 17 July 2007 Perhaps Gmail accidentally switched languages. Try going to Settings (or where it would be if it were in English -- 3rd link from the right on the top). The first option in the first tab is language; make sure it's set to English .
Guest happymac.support@gmail.com Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Re: GMAIL CORRUPTED BY STRANGE CRYLLIC LANGUAGE On Jul 17, 4:53 am, bigron2...@gmail.com wrote: > On 17 Jul, 18:02, "M.I.5¾" <no....@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote: > > > <bigron2...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > >news:1184665924.036617.206730@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com... > > > >I run my PC on XP Pro SP2 and use the email address > > > bigron2...@gmail.com as an alternate email address to cut down on > > > spam, etc.in my real life email > > > I can't think why you would get spam to this e-mail address. > > Why? Because whenever I register anything over the Internet I quote > my Gmail address. That way scrotes who harvest email addresses for > subsequent spam waste their time sending it to my gmail address and > not my real email address. It's over 90% effective, so - that's why! > And yes, my gmail account is often the target of spam. Just a note, Why don't you use the Gmail account as your main account? Gmail has the best spam filter I have ever seen. 99.99% of spam goes right into the Spam folder. I have been using Gmail for years now and have only had 2 spam messages come into my inbox. The rest goes into the spam folder. If you can't fix this cryllic problem, then use an email client (I use Outlook Express) to retrieve and sent mail. BTW, if you really want an email address to send spam to, use the disposable email addresses at http://email.bugmenot.com/. There are disposable email addresses available from other companies too. You use them once and then they get disposed. No account creating, no nothing. I use them all the time. HTH
Guest M.I.5¾ Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 Re: GMAIL CORRUPTED BY STRANGE CRYLLIC LANGUAGE <bigron2006@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1184673193.809277.115440@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com... On 17 Jul, 18:02, "M.I.5¾" <no....@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote: > <bigron2...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:1184665924.036617.206730@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com... > > >I run my PC on XP Pro SP2 and use the email address > > bigron2...@gmail.com as an alternate email address to cut down on > > spam, etc.in my real life email > > I can't think why you would get spam to this e-mail address. Why? Because whenever I register anything over the Internet I quote my Gmail address. That way scrotes who harvest email addresses for subsequent spam waste their time sending it to my gmail address and not my real email address. It's over 90% effective, so - that's why! And yes, my gmail account is often the target of spam. ------------- My question was rhetorical.
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