# of junk emails in a day?

[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??