E-mail, chat, & VoIP : Poll: How much spam e-mail do you get?
- 10/2/08 1:40 PM
Poll: How much spam e-mail do you get?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 10/2/08 1:40 PM
If you received a nickel for every spam e-mail you get in your in-box, how well would you do?
-- Forget the lottery, all I need is spam. (Ever consider changing your e-mail address?)
-- I'd be able quit my job. (How much spam is that?)
-- A little extra income doesn't hurt. (How much spam is that?)
-- I would get chump change. (What's your secret to preventing spam?)
-- I would starve to death. (What's your secret to eliminating spam?)
-- Other. (Please explain.)
I would starve to death . . .
by Coryphaeus - 10/3/08 6:21 AM In reply to: Poll: How much spam e-mail do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I don't share my email address with any site except my bank and trusted sites. And maybe I'm a little lucky as I have three valid email addresses.
Too many people join a site for whatever reason, and to join they give their email address. Stupid.
I would starve to death too...
by rgfitz - 10/3/08 6:16 PM In reply to: Poll: How much spam e-mail do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use Mailwasher and Earthlink Mailbox Spamblocker.
I never see more than 4-5 spam emails a week.
It seems they drastically decreased when they arrested the "King of Spam" a year or two ago. Now that he has been released, I am starting to see a few more.
How to stop spam
by retok01 - 10/4/08 1:38 AM In reply to: I would starve to death too... by rgfitzI used to receive tons of spam letters. Used a "block sender" and teach the mail box how to segregate but to no avail.
Accidentaly received a mail sent by " INCREDIMAIL " and tried out.
Fellows don't take my word but try it out.
Once you block the sender and bounce his mail, it is a bible. No more letters from that spammer.
It took a while until blocked all of them and now no more spams.
There maybe another mail service just as efficas but this is number one for me and is free.
Google to "Incredimail" and easy as 123 or ABC.
Good luck chaps.
Spam by harmrabb.
by Verherstraeten - 10/3/08 8:14 PM In reply to: Poll: How much spam e-mail do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My secret is PC Tools (Spyware Doctor).
Bien à vous.
I'd be much larger than my body
by freesumpin - 10/3/08 10:15 PM In reply to: Poll: How much spam e-mail do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Some days my yahoo account receives 300+ in the spam folder but several a week sneak through like snakes.
Will spammers spend lifetimes making up for bad Karma? Probably!
I would get some change but not a lot
by Hforman - 10/3/08 10:34 PM In reply to: Poll: How much spam e-mail do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use a remailer that I've had for years and they started scanning for spam. My ISP recently started scanning for spam too. I'm running two anti-spam programs here as well.
Still, I manage to get 3-4 a day but they are of the questionable variety (I signed up for something at some point).
Cox
by mwooge - 10/7/08 7:48 AM In reply to: I would get some change but not a lot by HformanI'm with Cox Cable, which has its own spam blocker. Works pretty well, though I get a couple or three a day. I'm forgiving of that, it's managable.
Short of blocking everything except -known- sender names, which would block emails you want, the spammers will find a way to get to you.
So very little...
by blindsight - 10/3/08 10:48 PM In reply to: Poll: How much spam e-mail do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've had this email address for about 7 years, but used a Yahoo account before that. I still use the @yahoo.com address for fly by night sites that want an address for access, but I use my primary for my banking/financial/legitimate sites. The stream of spam at the yahoo address keeps my account active, and antispam software (McAfee Anti-Spam) coupled with safe email practices (leaving the auto-read panel turned off, not clicking links in dodgy messages) have kept me 99% spam free.
I'd be absolutely destitute!
by azwriter - 10/3/08 11:10 PM In reply to: Poll: How much spam e-mail do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I'm amazed at how well Gmail works for me. There hasn't been a single spam e-mail in my inbox in the past 6 months...maybe longer. Every two weeks or so I look in the Spam folder to see if any of my legitimate e-mails have turned up there erroneously. In the past 6 moonths I estimate that there were 3 legitimate e-mails that Gmail messed up on. But -- there's lots of spam in the spam folder.
Chump Change
by Flirkann - 10/3/08 11:22 PM In reply to: Poll: How much spam e-mail do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have two active accounts and a phantom account.
The primary address only gets given out to sites I really trust (3-4 spam emails a week, must be from around when I first got the account), ones with a question mark get my secondary address (4-5 emails a day).
Both accounts have spam filtering turned off (or turned down for the secondary account - mandatory filtering on that domain).
For sites I only need temporary access to or have no intention of trusting, I use TemporaryInbox and creative form details...
I would get chump change, maybe 2 or 3 dollars a week.
by ronaldbhurst - 10/4/08 12:03 AM In reply to: Poll: How much spam e-mail do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Most of the small amount of spam that I get comes from services that I subscribe to, like news services, stock photo sites, and the like. I get from 0 to 3 emails a day from overseas telling me I've won or inherited some huge amount of money, and those emails go into my "fraud" folder (around 80 for the last year). I use AT&T's Internet Security Suite, which catches a lot of malware, adware, and spam, and I supplement that Suite with Netcom3 Security Suit which is supposed to be transparent to the ISP's security software. Netcom3 (when it's up to date) and Security Task Manager (Neuber Software) catch the bad stuff that slips by AT&T's Suite. AT&T web mail has a thing called Mailguard, where email that MAY be spam is put in its own folder to be inspected whenever. I never see the email that it is SURE is spam. One thing that I make it a point never to do is to check the "remember me" box whenever I log onto a web site. It's less convenient, but the little bit of extra security that it affords is worth the inconvenience.
Do you count the Gmail spam folder?
by Ishkuk - 10/4/08 1:21 AM In reply to: Poll: How much spam e-mail do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If you do count ones that pass your inbox - I'm one rich guy (I got 1000 spam in about a week). Otherwise, I'd probably not be able to check my email because I'd've had to sell my computer!
Isaac
SPAM
by Silvertop - 10/4/08 2:32 AM In reply to: Poll: How much spam e-mail do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I made the terrible mistake of entering a local contest for a new car. The entry form asked for my email address which I gave them. Ever since that entry I get anywhere from 5 to 20 spam emails a day. I have not responded to any hoping they will go away but to no avail. I am now cursed with email offers constantly offering everything under the sun for 'free' and body parts enhancements I've never heard of. Really really annoying!
Spam e-mail
by lucky 24 - 10/4/08 3:16 AM In reply to: Poll: How much spam e-mail do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I get maybe one or two unwanted e-mails a month! Why? I have a Macintosh which is a different operating system from PCs. Apparently e-mails can't get through so I rarely see any!
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