I don't know about you, but me, my Dad, my sisters, my mom, we all get spam.

Any of you don't?

One of my sisters is the worse, she get about 1000 messages a day, she doesn't even use it anymore.


Also, If you have some server or router or blocker that blocks spam... you get spam. So anyone here not get spam?

Also, why can't it stop? Like telemarketers(SP?), that stopped.

I use Gmail, and I still get spam, but 99.9% of it goes to my spam folder, never to be seen. Occassionally I'll see one one slip through into the inbox, but not often. Ususally they're phishing scams for eBay and PayPal and all that, but one only slips through every month or so, and I just click report spam on it. I be kinda careful where I put my email address though because sometimes if you give your email addy to one wrong place, they'll sell the thing in a list (over and over) and you'll end up getting like 1000 spams a day. In my spam box, I probably get around 40 spams a day.

Strangely, I don't really get any spam. I have no clue why. Maybe because I don't really use my email a whole lot.

no spam here, not a single one.

Actually, damn it, two got through today. I jinxed myself. Thats like... never happened before.

I usually get a couple ebay and paypal ones, couple of those that have letters about donating money and stuff about people in Africa, fake/cheap drugs, and some stuff about stuff in your pants. It's mostly just paypal and ebay stuff.

I use Thunderbird, I like it 'cause when I turn it on, it doesn't open the first piece of mail like OE does. So, it will show me all my new messages, and I open ones for stuff I know is good (LQ, forums, Linspire, and my Dad.

I stopped using the spam filter in Thunderbird 'cause I have to open the piece of mail to mark it spam, and since all the email address and subjects and senders are always different... it doesnt do anything.

EDIT: I also recently started using Firefox, and got an extension that will use IE's engine to display webpages that Firefox cannot, but is still in the firefox browser. So I can use, visually, Firefox all the time.

I also have lots of other free opensource stuff too: Gimp, OOo, and some other stuff. Also got shareware (ah hem... winzip), but the only piece of software paid for was windows and lots of tools in WIndows (movie maker, windows media player, paint, the OS, calculator, etc)

I don't get any spam on my primary e-mail.

However, I have an alternate which I use to sign up for forums, fill out forms and otherwise provide an e-mail address when it's required. That one is full of nothing but spam and the occasional verification URL that I actually requested.

Same thing here exactly - "Private" email that I only share with friends and such, and then a Hotmail account for when I sign up for stuff. Works pretty well, I almost never get spam on my primary address this way (though it's no guarantee, of course.)

I don't get ANY spam, but then again, thats because I am using the whitelist option that my isp provides. Basically its a list of allowed email addresses, if an address attempts to contact me and is not on the list, it never reaches me, nor does it go to the trash or spam bin, the server simply drops it, no error return nothing. Its great, I love it, sure downside is I have to input addresses but I don't care, it beats getting idiotic pharmaceutical, pump and dump stocks, and such.

well i have hotmail, gmail, yahoo but GMAIL has the least amot of spam , hotmail has the most (i use gmail the most even at forums ) . the spam I get on gamil is rare and kida different , i never got those those other wise
they are like:-
hey i am Mr ABCDE of XYZ bank one of our client a XXXX million owner died , no one claims it , its 12 years past , now its right to govt to get it , i can get to safely bend legal things and transfer money to your account and then we can share 60-40 (60 being of sender) if you agree send me you bank account no at JKL@THIS AND THAT.COM (DONT reply to this email)
------- ABCDE , XYZ , JKL , THIS AND THAT ,XXXX million are replaced by names and digits

Trust me, telemarketers have not stopped. All the time my house is recieving telemarketing calls.

spamassassin is a great tool for managing spam. Easy to set up too.

I get thousands of spam a day because I have a commercial website that automatically emails responses to the "contact us" form, and I respond to emails, and the result is that some of my email addys wind up on thousands of different corrupted Windows systems.

I am running spamassassin on my website to capture/destroy incoming trash there (the limits are set fairly loose) and I have a tight spamassassin setup on my workstation that collects emails. The website throws the spam away; the workstation collects it in a spam folder so I can review to make sure I am not losing genuine mail to the spam folder.

My workstation isn't getting more than about 20 a day; the website does a good job of killing off the incoming crap.

I get heaps of spam since I went from running my own mail server to my new ISP mail server. From with 3 minutes of setting up my account I had 15 spam messages waiting in the mail for me, and get an average of 30 a day

yeah well I am sure there are better ideas but 2 for your consideration

1) use yahoo mail ....1G of storage and can grab your isp mail and has its own filter and

2) create an not-so-easy-username at your isp

eg

12Zxc1288pl@yourisp.net.au


it makes it harder for the bots altho your friends may forward your mail to someone less careful

dont publish your personal isp mail addresses on *any* web mail locations , infact try to avoid getting yourself serious in web mail totally ... i have the impression that web mail is more for not so serious and gaming stuffs ...

and also ... almost all the web mail palces are truly wastage of bandwidth(or whatever they are called , i donno) ... they are really old things brought over from the windows era ...


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