Community weekly poll: 12/24/04 How much e-mail spam do you receive daily?
- 12/20/04 10:17 AM
12/24/04 How much e-mail spam do you receive daily?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 12/20/04 10:17 AM
How much e-mail spam do you receive daily? Percent of my e-mail that’s spam:
10
20
50
90
99
None--my spam filter rules
Other
Green Card
by auggief - 12/22/04 12:47 AM In reply to: 12/24/04 How much e-mail spam do you receive daily? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I get spam daily starting about 3 months ago. Every day I get one or more wanting to give me a Green Card???? Different sources.
try Yahoo
by rahulbhatia - 12/24/04 2:40 AM In reply to: Green Card by auggiefi have been using yahoo mail since ages now...with the recent upgrade to 250MB on yahoo as well as hotmail, yahoo's spam protection is better according to me. and on yahoo i have almost no spam at all...not the same wid hotmail.
Try Yahoo
by eshchory - 12/24/04 3:30 AM In reply to: try Yahoo by rahulbhatiaI agree.
I receive all kinds of spam some of it doesn't even I have my actual email address (so how does it get to me? I don't know) but Yahoo weeds it all out.
My ISP is also very good (Bezeqint in Israel). Even though I don't pay any extra for a special service I never get any spam or viruses through them.
Yahoo and Spam
by themouser - 12/24/04 6:19 AM In reply to: try Yahoo by rahulbhatiaYou have got to be kidding! I have both MSN whivch is also Hotmail and Yahoo. While Yahoo gives you lots of space, you can sit and watch the spam come in. In a day, I get 184 or more spam with Yahoo. Hotmail is maybe 20 or 30. It's all pretty ridiculous. All the ones trying to sell the sex enhancing products which is the bulk of it.Yahoo is nice for the storage space, but they sure serve alot of spam!
'try Yahoo'
by ktyldy - 12/24/04 10:30 AM In reply to: try Yahoo by rahulbhatiaI agree on this ~ Yahoo rules in the spam area...
green card
by themouser - 12/24/04 6:28 AM In reply to: Green Card by auggiefHey, they gotta get those illegals in some way, but do they really have a computer or know how to access one? That's kind of funny. But then, my son is over in Iraq and he says they(The Iraqis) have computers. Maybe no roof or walls, but they have a computer and their satellite tv hooked up.They say that Osama runs around with a laptop. Wonder which mountain he hooks up to?
Have a Great Cristmas.
spam
by gt75mehta - 12/24/04 3:39 AM In reply to: 12/24/04 How much e-mail spam do you receive daily? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
A great headace even norton do not help
Almost none gets thru
by JLP - 12/24/04 4:20 AM In reply to: 12/24/04 How much e-mail spam do you receive daily? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I get a lot of spam messages to my e-mail accounts. But thanks to excellent antispam (antijunk as they call it) filter in Thunderbird almost none gets thru to my inbox. I also have an account at GMail and their antispam filter is also working great.
That's exactly my experience too
by M Fridholm - 12/24/04 5:24 PM In reply to: Almost none gets thru by JLPWhen I first installed thunderbird there was a few that got through, but nowadays it's down to maybe one or two a day. And that is for five separate accounts...
Less than TEN percent
by vculver - 12/24/04 4:37 AM In reply to: 12/24/04 How much e-mail spam do you receive daily? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I receive a LOT of e-mail daily and less than ten percent is spam. The stuff that comes through the ISP is largely related to fake Rolex watches, medical related, although I've been lucky enough to avoid MOST of the Viagra spam someone out there feels I need various enlargements etc., and software 'deals' -- most of which I distrust. They come to my correct address but are from obviously bogus senders (for the most part). I suppose I could filter those out but the number is not terribly bad right now and my routine correspondence is so varied I'm afraid a filter won't work well for me. I suspect my address has been sold by unscrupulous 'newsletter' perpetrators -- a couple of which I tried on a trial basis (they SAID they don't sell addresses, but yeah, what WOULD they say!!) and quit in fairly short order -- Lou Dobbs, Financial prognostications, etc. -- I should have known better! I'm hoping they will go away as I ignore them.
Spam
by shari2700 - 12/24/04 6:15 AM In reply to: 12/24/04 How much e-mail spam do you receive daily? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have received 200-250 per day in junk mail. Spam Eliminator did nothing to help and was virtually useless. Thank God my internet provider offered one at no cost after people complained about their e-mail. Now what the server doesn't reject my own e-mail system does. Now I have a spyware program that does the job for me, except that sometimes it removes the start-up programs that I need for certain games. How do I get around this?
Spam in a day
by themouser - 12/24/04 6:23 AM In reply to: 12/24/04 How much e-mail spam do you receive daily? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I actually get about 25 to 30% spam on Hotmail. 50% on Yahoo. My problem is some of my regular messages get thrown into the junk pile, so I have to go through it and weed them out. Even after I have put them on my safe list!
Loads O'Spam
by Randy Ray - 12/24/04 6:51 AM In reply to: 12/24/04 How much e-mail spam do you receive daily? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Like the question for next week, a few weeks ago it was as if someone pulled up a line of Internet trucks and started unloading SPAM. I have McAfee Internet Suite installed but don't use the Spam filter. However, there is no way to shut down just the spam filter updates and I notice that it is updated at least twice a day - every day. Not sure how well it works, though, because I have it turned off.
I control my SPAM using my Outlook 2003 junk mail filters and my own Rules. Not a whole lot of SPAM shows up in my In Box, but it still uses the bandwidth and at times I see that there are 100-300 emails at a time - and I check for new mail every 5 minutes!
I have changed all the email addresses on my websites (I own 6 domains) to include cloaking (name@*remove*mydomain.com), but am afraid that the damage is done. The bots already have the addresses.
The advantage of owning a domain, however is priceless when it comes to spam. Since I receive all the mail to my domain, I can put anything ahead of the "@" sign. If I go to a website that requires an email address, I use their_domain_name@my_domain_name.com (cnet@mydomain.com for instance). That way, if I get a lot of SPAM to that address I can 1) tell where it started and 2) easily block it.
Because at first some of my mail that ended up as junk was actually from someone I wanted to hear from, I had the junk mail sent to the junk folder. After wading through hundreds a day (TIP: Sort it by the FROM heading) I switched to permanently deleting it. But then, even though I got hundreds of email a day, I had none in my In Box, so I switched back only to find that - yes, indeed - it WAS all junk.
I have also set a rule that if it is from my High School Alumni domain (that I own) and the return address is not in my address book (registered members) then send it to junk. I then posted a message on the home page of the site stating that I had done that. But I also created a new address - "donotblock" - at that domain (and stated it in such a fashion that a bot would not find it) in case folks needed to send a message from a none registered address. Additionally, I have anti spam formatting (name@*remove*domain.com) applied to the member email addresses (only located in a flat file cgi script) plus have added a "member" with a unique email address that I also do not block to determine whether a bot has hacked my system.
SPAM. Can you imagine how fast the Internet would be if there was none??
similar experience
by MichaelF - 12/25/04 12:19 AM In reply to: Loads O'Spam by Randy RayI to have several domain and practice the same techniques of using the sites address in my address. This recently caught macromedia as I started getting spam on that address even though the only people that I gave that address to was Macromedia. No response from them when I asked about it though 
Unfortunately one of my domains that I had purely for educational purposes and never used for email and never gave out to anyone has started attracting spam. Don't know how but seems that someone just put 'sales' in front of my domain name and started spamming it. Very, very annoying. Email should be more trackable (there rarely valid addresses) and when you do find the offender there should be harsh penalties. They routinely put the 'we have your address because you gave it to one of our affilliated sites...' which is rubbish as I have never used that address.
Hopefully more will be done soon as they are making email unusable and unreliable.
Michael
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