E-mail, chat, & VoIP : Poll: How much e-mail spam in a day do you get?
- 10/5/07 1:34 PM
Poll: How much e-mail spam in a day do you get?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 10/5/07 1:34 PM
How much e-mail spam in a day do you get in your in-box?
Nada, Zilch, none! (Wow! Share your secret to success with us.)
1-10 (Not bad! How do you keep it this low?)
11-50 (How do you deal with them?)
51-100 (How do you deal with them?)
101-300 (How do you deal with them?)
300+ (Are you handing out your e-mail address on the street?)
Too many to count! (Maybe time to start over?)
Depends on the e-mail account...
by John.Wilkinson - 10/5/07 2:49 PM
In reply to: Poll: How much e-mail spam in a day do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
On a few of my primate business accounts I <b>never</b> receive spam, while on my public e-mail addresses it's not unusual to receive 300+ spam messages a day. None of it reaches my inbox, though...gotta love them spam filters! 
John
I agree with John,
by PudgyOne - 10/5/07 5:28 PM In reply to: Poll: How much e-mail spam in a day do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
it depends on the email account
My old joke email account = 73
My new joke email account = 1
My very private account = 0
The email account that was on a website to take care of it = 13, no longer on the website.
Yahoo = too many to count. I used the date to count the gmail accounts listed above, with Yahoo, they let anything come in, even with the wrong date, the year is 2038, imagine that.
Yahoo.com has gotten worse with allowing Spam through.
Rick
Yahoo spam
by meredit - 10/6/07 10:03 PM In reply to: I agree with John, by PudgyOneHi John,
I totally agree Yahoo. It came with my SBC DSL account several years ago and they told me that changing my address would screw up my service. I use it only for junk and contests and switched to Google. What I don't understand is how a reputable organization (can't remember who) in an article about the best e-mail providers stated that Yahoo did well with spam- what a lie! A combination of g-mail and Outlook with Qurb has kept it manageable.
Meredith
You are right. See the post I made a few minutes ago,below.
by Prandy - 10/8/07 12:28 PM In reply to: Yahoo spam by mereditAOL stops everything in its tracks. Almost nothing ever even goes into the spam folder - and when it does, it is something AOL does not recognize rather than spam.
Yahoo can't seem to stop the floodgates.
Spam
by wclark5 - 10/5/07 7:32 PM In reply to: Poll: How much e-mail spam in a day do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Most Spam for my primary address is caught by my ISP's filter (Cox)Almost 100% of what does get though is caught by CA Anti-Spam. Also, I have a Hotmail account with the junk mail filter set at highest level and that stops practically all spam.
1-10 spam emails
by mwooge - 10/5/07 10:01 PM In reply to: Spam by wclark5I also have Cox, and only get a few spam emails a day. An important plus: it doesn't block emsild from legitimate senders, which some blockers do.
I've had this address for years, so it's probably on a lot of lists.
Most interesting spammer was, apparently, me. A spammer was using my email address to advertise an, er, "enlarger".
Spam blocking program
by shan1944 - 10/5/07 7:36 PM In reply to: Poll: How much e-mail spam in a day do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I used to get a bunch of spam, but after using a neat little program called Mailwasher, I get very little. Mailwasher not only checks the mail before it ever gets to my inbox, it bounces it right back to the spammer, making it appear that the address is invalid. There is a free version and a paid version with more extensive tools.
the very act of bouncing spam
by jonah jones - 10/6/07 5:03 AM
In reply to: Spam blocking program by shan1944
lets the spammer know that "someone may be at home"
one of the worst "side-effects" (IMO) of mailwasher is the 'bounce' as it serves no purpose what-so-ever and just adds to the 'crap' clogging up the internet
jonah
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The "bouncing" must be set up properly
by davises - 10/9/07 12:31 AM In reply to: the very act of bouncing spam by jonah jones
You are correct..if you bounce mail directly from your account..they will know there may be someone there.
You have to set Mailwasher up to bounce the mail back through your ISP so it appears to originate from your ISP. It gives both options. Then, when the bounce bounces back because it was a spoofed address, you must delete the bounce and not bounce it back, just as your ISP would.
Spam Spam Spam and Spam
by jaytmoon - 10/5/07 7:39 PM In reply to: Poll: How much e-mail spam in a day do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I olny get a few a week now that i do not reply to or open anything from whom i don't know
good filters!
by piercedtiger - 10/5/07 7:47 PM In reply to: Poll: How much e-mail spam in a day do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My gmail account gets lots of spam now, but very rarely does one actually make to my inbox! Like maybe once a month I have to redirect one to the spam folder. My company email hasn't had a single one since we switched to Appriver from Verisign (now Microsoft, go figure) for our spam filtering service. I also get email sent to a generic "support@..." email so that would be an easy target.
My hotmail account on the other hand... *rolls eyes* THAT one needs to be set to "exclusive" (only people in my address list allowed) as it lets spam through like water through a sieve. Way to go Microsoft! You've given me 5gig so I don't have to delete spam to have room in my inbox for legitimate emails, but too little too late. I've moved on.
Filtering SPAM email
by jfontainhas - 10/5/07 7:53 PM In reply to: Poll: How much e-mail spam in a day do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I receive 4500 Spam mails per month.
I have had my address forwarded to my Gmail account and rely on the Gmail Spam filter.
After a couple of months of learning the Gmail Spam filter now operates flawlessly. The efficiency is super.
Now I hardly find, per day, one or two Spam mails in the Inbox folder.
Before deleting the Spam mail from the Spam folder I make a quick review to recover the very few good emails which are caught by the filter and I move them to the Inbox folder.
It works better that any other commercial program I have ever tried. And it is free...
How much spam?
by Eve24 - 10/5/07 8:10 PM In reply to: Poll: How much e-mail spam in a day do you get? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Zilch! "Earthlink Spamblocker Baby!"
earthlink-spam blocker.
by rester - 10/6/07 5:40 AM In reply to: How much spam? by Eve24works great for me also.my netzero address has a leak in the dam,poor blocker,my peoplepc gets none??? to bad we could'nt reverse 10 spam emails to ever one we get.
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