# of junk emails in a day?

[sdee]

Ok, I'm just getting sick of this. For the past month i've been trying to cut down on the # of junk messages I get in my hotmail. I go into them and remove myself from the mailing list,,, thats on the ones that have the option which is maybe only half :( .

Dosen't seem to be working.

In a day I get at least 10 junk emails despite my best efforts. My junk mail filter is on "enhanced" but I'm about ready to go to set it so only people in my address book can email me.

How many junk emails do you get? Any other rants?

This crap can't be working,,anybody actually bought something because of one of these email "ads"???

[ItzMe]

I had to set my hotmail to exclusive just cause the amt of junk mail was overwhelming...never bought anything off it (and from what I have read i think the response and purchase rate is less than 1% :? ...)

bad bad bad junk mail !

[fance_mark]

Forward it to goob3r, he's looking for things to do :)

[anounymouse]

Alot of times those "remove me from the mailing list" options just gets you added to a "working email address" list, which they can then use for other stuff, or sell for more money...

[JLunar]

sigh. I wish I only had ten junks a day. I get nearly 100 pcs of junk a day. That's not including my hotmail. combine the two and I'm nearly at 200.

Jen

[Crusader]

Alot of times those "remove me from the mailing list" options just gets you added to a "working email address" list, which they can then use for other stuff, or sell for more money...

Yeap, this is true. You've got also a new option with hotmail that help you eliminate spam. Check the option of not displaying the image directly, since sometime the spammer will know he's got a good "spammable" email adress just by some link in the pictures...

[anounymouse]

a great service you can use is www.spamgourmet.com, you create a username, which then forwards mail to your real account, but you can set a limit of how many mails certain companies send to you

ie: lets say I signed up for something at www.adsfadsf.com and they wanted my email address but I dont want them to send me more than 5 emails. I would tell them that my email address is something like asdfasdf.5.anounymouse@spamgourmet.com so after 5 emails have been sent to that address, it will stop working..

[thedon]

have you guys tried using ad aware, i find that the majority of my junk mail comes from spyware programs which can be erased by ad aware

[inf]

I get 2 to 3 hundred spammies a day in my 5 boxes :twisted:
(I've abandoned about 10 boxes :wink: )

[JustMike]

I run my own mail server (Postfix) on Linux. With it's junk mail filtering enabled, as well asSpamAssassin, and Procmail, only about 5 spams a day come through. It used to be in around 50. I am quite pleased with the setup.

[Chemical2001]

I get a couple hundred.

I wish I wouldn't get anymore.

[Keelie]

at the most maybe 15?

[chillin]

i got fed up w/ spam so i set up my own mail server and now when i fill out anything online i use the url as the account name. that way atleast i know where its coming from, so far nothing after 3 months heh.

also for the spam i do get now i get it sorted as i download it with this program: http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
very handy, and it learns quickly what spam is, also i just send spam into another dir in outlook so i can see if something important slips through, hasn't yet. usually spam sneeks through but thats quickly delt with.

[PGT]

Mailwasher Pro (with a set of filters available from the Firetrust website) finally tamed the spam beast for my ISP and Hotmail accounts.

[wintech]

Around 300 just from my Hotmail. But that's my "spam account."

[JustMike]

I also use a freeware/OpenSource Bayesian filter plug-in on Outlook 2000 on my work machine that seems to very well. I don't remember the name, but it's hosted on SourceForge so it should be relatively easy to find.

[KiLLaKoW]

Recently my ISP started to use spam assasin, I love it. I just wish hotmail would use it :/

[Tsukagi]

i get about 30-50 msgs in junk mail a day w/ hotmail...doesn't really bug me b/c hotmail isn't my main e-mail anymore, only used for signing up for freebies and stuff like that..commercial things.

[goob3r]

Forward it to goob3r, he's looking for things to do :)

Yeah, send it to me.

I recently just registered a domain. I was amazed that it was still available since all the otehr top levels were taken. I checked the mail for the first time yesterday, and found 250 spam emails awaiting me. They were all either face@ or lolita@ :?:

That got me wondering, so I took a look at the logs, and there were upwards of 200 visitors that came by the site, referred from xxx sites, and mostly from Japan. The domain name is a Japanese word.

Turns out I picked up an old adult site's domain name. Which is surprising, because the word is no less associated with sex than the word "happy".

Time to configure spamassassin.

[c r a z o o]

~80 give or take 3, but 90 of them are filtered

[teknoluv]

SPAM is a fact of (Internet) life, and 10 pieces a day is already heaven to me. ;)

[tep]

I dont' know how gmail does it but they are incredibly good at filtering my spam. I get maybe 1 spam a day in the inbox and there are days where i get none.

When I look in the spam folder, i get dozens of spams coming in and gmail has managed to sift all that out for me. I can't say the same for hotmail, spam just flows right in like tap water.

[jollyeskimo]

gmail wasn't invented in 2003 ;)

[tep]

wow..lol didn't even notice the date of the OP.

[teknoluv]

Yes, my Gmail account catches much spam (filtered into spam folder), but then there are still A LOT left in the Inbox. In my other mail account, the upstream provider filters out the more obvious spam messages so I don't even see them at all.

[teknoluv]

Hey, who dug out this old thread??