Spam in email...

[Asura]

Every day I recieve a ton of AD mail known as spam and it is VERY annoying. In a day I recieve 250 emails which are junk. Does anyone else have this problem? If so what are your views and solutions to this.

[Dan L]

I got an e-mail adress dedicated to the sole purpose of giving to people who will send me spam. And I never check it.

I've recieved hardly any spam ever since doing that.

[Guest cloricus]

I am the same as Dan except I have three accounts for this purpose all of which are through free web based email systems like hotmail, yahoo and some others. Spam is just a fact of the web until an effective way is found to deal with it. In the mean time just learn to live with it or listen to tips on how to reduce it. :)

[Boba Fett]

[COLOR=green]Spam? I usually get about one or two each week, in my main e-mail account [Yahoo]. I simply am very careful with my e-mail address, and don't spread it around. I only sign up for mailing lists that don't share your e-mail, and only sign up for things that I really am interested in.

My old e-mail account was flooded with spam e-mail, because I gave out my e-mail address way too often, and was on many mailing lists. Somewhere along the line, my address was added to a spam e-mail list, and I had to close my account because of the insane amount of irrelevant e-mail.

By guarding my e-mail address, I rarely get spam e-mail. It really isn't a problem for me anymore.[/COLOR]

[Kei]

[color=darkblue]The fact of the matter is, as long as there's e-mail, there'll be junk e-mail. Any list you sign up for is a possibility for you to be added to someone's spam list for any given reason. Even though there's supposed to be an anti-spam law about to be passed here in the States, I doubt it'll have any more effect than the "Do-Not-Call" list. --; It's just something we have to deal with.

The main thing you should do is if it's from an address you know you'd never get mail from (i.e. [email protected]), delete it outright. Anything else, you may have to check. You can then add it to your Block List, or whatever. Or, like me, I just put a full-force spam guard on my Hotmail. I haven't seen spam for the good part of a year now.[/color]

[AzureWolf]

I have a filter in place that has so far never failed me: it has never sent spam into my inbox, nor has it sent important e-mails into the trash. I have my e-mail program set to delete any e-mail that has my e-mail address in the subject line (think about it: how many people do you know say "hey ####@####.com, how you doing?"). Until I start getting spam that doesn't have my e-mail address listed, I'm pretty much set. Nonetheless, it should still significantly reduce the amount of spam you have to shuffle through.

Until I actually checked earthlink's spam blocker, I never knew that I got spam at my earthlink account. Spam blockers must be pretty effective, so you might want to try some of those too.

[MissWem]

I don't get spam...*feels lucky*...the only spam I get are those annoying FWD I get from my own friends *rolls eyes*

Actually that only happened since my hotmail account was deactivated for about two months. Then I realized I needed it so I reactivated and no spam since,except for two, which I promptly deleted and blocked. This was about 2 or 3 months ago.

[OtakuSennen]

[color=midnightblue]Back when Prodigy was our internet provider and our email was simply an outdated version of Outlook Express we had spam issues, but rarely anything adult-oriented. I don't know how our computer sifted through such things, but it did. Most of our spam at the time were stupid contests and ones with strange generic titles and addresses like "Hey, Greg" from some person named Steve. It was kind of weird.

But now that we have SBC Yahoo DSL, we have a file for bulk mail (Which implies spam goes there as well) and one from personal computers of people we know. It's really helped us out a lot, and we rarely get any true spam anymore.

My suggestion to fix your problem, Asura, is to get a better internet provider. It may cost more than what you have right now, but even my hotmail account barely gets any true spam.

I was watching 20/20 a month or two ago and they had one of the major spam companies' owners on there. He was talking about how it's just business and their way of getting bread on the table and such. "Think of spam like television commercials," he said.

Just thought I'd mention that.[/color]

[Guest MrSonic]

Get a Yahoo mail account. If there is too much SPAM going thru, deactivate it. Then wait a week and reactivate it. Seems to work for me.

[satan665]

hmmm. the junkmail filter on Hotmail actually works pretty well for me, After I set it high just about every email I get gets put into junkmail, but it lets you pick the ones from people you know and never sends them to junk again. The only problem there is that you have to look in the junkmail folder to make sure something good didn't get blocked.

[Baron Samedi]

I use hotmail, and get... oh, maybe 5 or so spam emails a week. My advice is to either use a spam blocker [which I don't], be careful with your email address, and block all spam emails when you get them. Don't bother openeing them, just click delete. It isn't too hard. But 250 emails a day is extreme.

[James]

[color=#707875]I get spam occasionally, though it's never too bad. I get a [i]lot[/i] of spam at my address at theOtaku.com, although I very rarely use that address to contact people.

I don't get any spam at my private address, largely because only two or three people know what the address is. So, I have three email accounts that I use...and by being selective and careful, I tend to avoid spam in the main accounts.[/color]

[Guest cloricus]

I've had an address with hotmail nearly since it started (the good old days!) and it gets hardly any, every so often it will spike and I'll get a ton for a week or so then dies off to nothing like now. I have no idea how many lists its in or what spam it's been signed up for but if you ignore most modern spam programs wipe you from lists, as long as you don't open the email and it access the pictures from off site or that have sneaky little remotes.

People who have spam blocking and pay for services like this are always being ripped off, the scripts used for this sort of thing are simple ones and it's really a waste of time. Plus the trend for ISP?s that supply ?anti-spam? is that they are low quality like Tel$tra here in Australia, normally keep clear of them and just do it yourself or pay a rip off artist 25$ for a program instead of switching ISP.

[Fall]

Nope. Ever since I've had the e-mail address I've got now, with Hotmail (whooohh...), I've had no junk-mail what-so-ever. And I have absolutely no idea why. I'm signed up to so many mailing-lists, fan-clubs, etc, I can't count them all, and I've only ever had one junk-mail item sent to my address... and to that, I actually read it and took some interest.

...yep, and my "Junk-Mail" folder is empty... :smoke:

[Vegitto4]

Yahoo likes to throw it all into my Bulk mail. So i just click empty, and it all goes away. :P

w00t

[Trumen]

I use to get a lot of SPAM until I made a program that blocks e-mails based on the number of Kbs. Think about it, if you are getting an e-mail from a friend is it really going to be more than 10k(not including attachments)? Also, in my state a law is about to be passed that bans spam, and that cleared it up for my friends.

[Dan L]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Trumen [/i]
[B]Think about it, if you are getting an e-mail from a friend is it really going to be more than 10k(not including attachments)?. [/B][/QUOTE]

Err... my friends can testify to the exact opposite of what you just said.

The last one I sent to these guys was 50K, not including attachents. And it wasn't spam..

Besides, I've had a hell of a lot of short spam messages in my time on the net..

[Guest Cujo]

I usually get about 30 emails a day, and 29 of them are spam...

[Mitch]

[img]http://www.duke.edu/~bis/img/spam.gif[/img]


[size=1] Sadly, I don't get the meat substitute spam in my E-mail box. It's physically...well...impossible. Because I am on the internet.

Have I even ever tasted this stuff? No, sadly.

I'd like to think it tastes like floor. But correct me if I'm wrong, anyway.

So no. I only have about 2 e-mail addresses...I don't get spam at any. I wouldn't eat it if I did, anyway.[/size]

[UnsungHero]

Bloody Hotmail!

I get about 20 messages advertising porn sites a day!
I'll create a new email and for some odd reason it also gets sent these messages.
Blocking doesn't help! I've tried everything and now I've completely given up. No more emails for me. Now I only use my email address to log into MSN.

[Haze]

I don't get all of the ad's and stuff but I get all of those ridiculusly large forwards that everybody sends around. I consider them SPAM. I hate them. The other day I got this one that was talking about an old lady who walked into a grociery store. She let some cash register girl stick her hand in a box. Then the Girl starts screaming. THen apparently you are to send it to 8 people and puch Alt+8 to make the container appear on your screen. Pure idiocracy. So my friend got angry with it because it was somewhere near 300 Kb. And this is what she said. . . .
"IF YOU BELIEVE THIS IS GOING TO WORK AND ARE THINKING OF WHO TO SEND IT TO RIGHT NOW YOU ARE AN IDIOT, YES, AN IDIOT, DO NOT SEND THIS PIECE OF JUNK TO ANYONE EVER, BECAUSE WHO KNOWS THEY MIGHT BE AS STUPID AS YOU, SEEING AS YOU SENT ME THIS PEICE OF CRAP.
AND NOW SENSE YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD OFF BY GOD!!!!, YES, GOD!!! I WILL FINISH THE STORY FOR YOU, THE STUPID CHICK WHO PUT HER HAND IN THE CONTAINER SCREAMED BECAUSE SHE WAS BITTEN BY A FLESH EATER SPIDER, THE OLD LADY WAS SUED BY THE STUPID CHICK'S FAMILY AND SENTENCED TO LIFE IN JAIL FOR 1ST DEGREE MURDER, LUCKILY FOR HER, SHE DIED THE DAY SHE WAS PLACED IN THE WOMAN'S REHABILITATION FACILITY-HAVE A NICE DAY! - GOD-"

LOL. Yes she is God.

[I, Colossus]

[color=#006699]I get a piece of SPAM or two when I check my e-mail once or twice a week. But nothing serious, mainly porn ads. I usually open my ads unless there are tons, sometime it'll be just some advritisement for some harmless device or product. But sometimes I'll open it and I'll get tons of porn popups. Popups don't bother me (since I use Opera a majority of the time). So I can just click the "[b]Close All But Active[/b]" button and poof they're gone.

On my hotmail account on the other hand (which I check like once a month) I have SPAM e-mail coming out the wazoo. I just check it because an old girlfriend that moved up north has some vandetta against Yahoo Mail and wont email me there. :p

But overall it doesnt annoy me too much. Spyware is what annoys me.[/color]

[DeathKnight]

[color=crimson]I don't really get alot of spam. Hotmail has some inane settings which kills most of it- but the main thing I do is have an email adress for private use. Just for friends and I. I guess it is sad that it has gotten to that point, but what can you do.

*walks away to get his penis enlarged, to save money on car insurance and to get bigger breasts*[/color]

[Harry]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by UnsungHero [/i]
[B]
I get about 20 messages advertising porn sites a day![/B][/QUOTE]
That's all? Here's how much I get if I don't check it for two days. I easily hit a 1000 each week.

Note: The ones in suspects folder are spam.

[Magnum Apex]

[color=darkblue][font=trebuchet ms]I have several old hotmail accounts that are constantly filled with spam. When I was younger, say... 17, being an internet-illiterate I signed up for tons of porn sites. Yes, willingly. I was quite the horny teenager. I soon realized the error of my ways when I got 20 e-mail messages a day about random crap I didn't care about. At first, I was excited because "I'm getting porn!" but the novelty quickly wore off.

I signed up to new hotmail accounts, but somehow spam got in the way. However...[/color][/font]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Fall [/i]
[B]Nope. Ever since I've had the e-mail address I've got now, with Hotmail (whooohh...), I've had no junk-mail what-so-ever. And I have absolutely no idea why. I'm signed up to so many mailing-lists, fan-clubs, etc, I can't count them all, and I've only ever had one junk-mail item sent to my address... and to that, I actually read it and took some interest.

...yep, and my "Junk-Mail" folder is empty... :smoke: [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=darkblue][font=trebuchet ms]... this happened to me as well, when I signed up for yet another hotmail account over a year ago. The spam I get, which is quite rare, relates to advertisement for college and university offers. Other than that, I get no spam. There are times when some newsletters I'm signed into fall in the junk mail folder, like ADV and Nintendo, but after fixing it I don't worry about it happening again.

Asura: There's the small possibility that someone saw your e-mail address and used it to play a prank on you. That is, someone could've purposely searched for spam websites and signed your e-mail address to them, just for the hell of it. Heck, I know someone from college who's done it.[/color][/font]