OT- Junk Mail

[Taera]

spam is a word associated with hotmail.
20 spammails per day is nothing. i had (have?) a hotmail account that was about 4-5 years old. i was getting 100+ spams per day.
Yahoo! is pretty good at getting rid of spam.
a friend of mine recommended me http://www.graffiti.net . if you dont mind graffiti.net in your mail address it is the best - absolutely no spam. had this account for 8 months for now, not a single spam letter.

[Will]

The address was definitely harvested by a spider bot. The mail server is part of a University network, so the owners didn't sell it, and I've only recieved Messages originating from the same server. So the only possible way that the address got on spam lists is because some bot randomly happened upon it. Well, someone else could have sold the 50 or so addresses to a spammer, but I doubt that.

About the Hotmail accounts, I've suspected this for a while, but never really bothered taking time to prove it (set up dummy account, send mail from Hotmail accounts, wait to see if spam arrives). That's why I don't really send mail out of my Hotmail accounts, I just recieve sign-up confirmations.

Like I said, I just wanted to rant about how sad it is when a company resorts to a very unpopular advertising method to sell a product designed (supposedly) to block that same advertising method.

Personally, I never really understood why spammers continue to just buy any address they can and send several different ads to them. They say that the "0.001% response is enough to compensate for the costs". Well, why not work on sending to addresses that might even remotely be interested in responding? Changing 0.001% to .5% has to be more profitable, right? And, you get the added bonus of pissing fewer people off. For example, there are several ads marketing certain ways to enhance physical aspects that are specific to only a specific gender, within a certain age range, with an income level that allows for the frivolous expence of that enhancement. Send to just the people that fit into those catagories, and the 0.001% could turn to .5%. Maybe. But no, I have to recieve 50 Messages a day that inform me of a new way to make my chest bigger, and they ain't talking about a new exercise program.

*/rant*

[Fyron]

Umm... I get almost no spam emails with my hotmail account. You people just don't do it right.

[Zarix]

I have had my hotmail account for more than a year. I usually get one or two spam Messages in a day. A good trick is not to put your e-mail address as text in webpages. I always put my e-mail in an image.

[Krsqk]

[babbling] Wow! I don't know what you all are doing wrong. I never get junk mail. And I make it a habit to always post my e-mail address on the Web every chance I get! I must just be lucky or something.[/babbling]

Of course, I'll probably get tons of it, just to make up for my gloating.

[BBegemott]

I'm using hotmail ~3 years. I got 2 spam Messages during the Last week.

Hotmail Users have an option to include a single adresses to block-lists, if they don't want to recieve Messages from them. They can include specific endings of email (****@free-stuff.com) to block-list as well. That is why I like hotmail.

[mlmbd]

I use Yahoo. In your email config you can block address. It also seperates your email into 2 Groups via Spam Guard, InBox and Bulk mail. I does a very nice job. Plus you can report 'Spam', from your inbox. Our report 'spam' from inside the Messages you choose to read from Bulk mail. This is all from the free Yahoo account. You can sign up for bigger and better, for a fee.

mlmbd

[primitive]

And so sayeth Bill Gates:

Spam was, Spam is, and Spam shall be. After summer is winter, and after winter, summer. It ruled once where man rules now; where man rules now, it shall rule again. As a foulness shall ye know it.

[Kamog]

Whether you get junk mail or not also seems to depend on how common-sounding your e-mail address is. For example, if your name is John Smith, then you will get a lot of junk if your address is something like jsmith@hotmail.com. But if you make your e-mail address JS66260755@hotmail.com, then you won't get much. I suspect that some of these companies that send spam generate e-mail addresses by taking a list of Last names and adding different letters or different first names in front of them, or some other common way that people use to come up with addresses.

Spam is a luncheon meat that comes in a rectangular can, similar to corned beef.

[Fyron]

Hmm... guess my totally abnormal email address helps me not get spam.

That spam stuff that comes in cans is worse than internet spam by far.