Had enough Spam yet?

**Richard1** · April 21st, 2005, 03:40 PM

Hello People, spam may be good on a cracker but not when it's choking your mailbox rendering it almost unusuable.
I was sifting through my e-mail today and realized I got over 650 spam messages yesterday. That is like 10% real mail and 90% spam. Is anyone else fed up with this? It's not like I can trust my spam/bulk e-mail filter either. The more I try the more real mail gets sent there, which means I have to check it at least once daily. How do you deal with the daily spam you receive. Any filters or programs you want to rave or complain about? Thanks.

**3fingersalute** · April 21st, 2005, 04:03 PM

I use a yahoo and a gmail address for almost everything, and the bulk folder seems to do a great job of filtering out about 98 % of all SPAM.

I do have a POP3 work address and a personal POP3 address, but they are given to only a few people, and never used in forms (I put my yahoo address in all forms) - so I get 0 SPAMs to my POP3 accounts at the moment.

**Matridom** · April 21st, 2005, 04:20 PM

you missed the 0 spam option.

The other week for the first time in a year I got 1 spam message. so that's 1 a year.

Needless to say, my ISP has very good spam filtering. Spam never hits my mail box.

**NooNoo** · April 21st, 2005, 05:03 PM

I used msn for signing up to stuff that might cause spam, otherwise gmail and bt.yahoo do a good job between them.

**Radical Dreamer** · April 21st, 2005, 05:31 PM

0, So I picked dont know

**TechZ** · April 22nd, 2005, 04:41 AM

Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo, thats all I use, maybe 1 per month in gmail, thats about it. I'm very careful about giving out my addy.

**Outcoded** · April 22nd, 2005, 08:54 AM

0

**hudsonsmith** · April 22nd, 2005, 09:13 AM

My verizon account has spam filtering. I tested the bulk mail folder for a few months and found that real mail wasn't going there, so now I just have the filter delete spam immediately. (If I'm missing real mail, I haven't noticed it.) It occassionally misses one or two, but the filter on Outlook 2K3 generally nabs those.

For signups I use an excite.com address. A lot of spam goes to that address, but their spam filtering is pretty good as well, so maybe one or two get through to the inbox there.

At work we have esafe installed on the network. Lets 0 spam through, but I do find it holds too much real mail. Unfortunately, there's no notification, so I don't know somethings been held until somebody asks me about it and I don't have it.

**Richard1** · April 22nd, 2005, 09:31 AM

Yeah I guess that would work but we are in different situations. I'm talking about my work e-mail which is posted on many, many sites. My mail program has a junk feature but I find myself checking it regularly and sometimes finding stuff being mislabeled as junk.

**Ferrit** · April 22nd, 2005, 09:44 AM

4 yrs on the net,same email address, and still less then 10 spam a day.
Usually those are taken care of by the built in spam filter in netscape 7/8 depending on what I am using on that particular day. I havent even engaged the spam filter for my ISP yet

**RejectionMan** · April 22nd, 2005, 03:27 PM

Personaly maby 3, at work none, how ever corperatly were getting slammed, well into the thousands, that the mail server is blocking, stuff that is actualy getting delivered.... no idea, but users are complaining.

**arch0nmyc0n** · April 22nd, 2005, 03:57 PM

The ISP I work at recently outsourced the spam filtering cause we couldn't keep up with it... there's something like 640 billion different ways to infer the word viagra... I'm not typing those all out...

**Atodini** · April 22nd, 2005, 05:19 PM

On my regular everyday POP3 webmail I only get maybe 10 a day but on my other e-mail account, which is kept on our server, (the one supplied by my isp, NTL), it is always in the high hundreds / low thousands daily!! (despite changing it at least twice in the last couple of years).

Just checked and in the last 36 hours or so, (since I last accessed it) there have been 1237 messages, all spam!

All the usual stuff of course, viagra, fake watches, sex, mortgages etc

Ah well, select all/delete/empty deleted items folder....

Interestingly, I've never actually used the current address, or given it to anybody - I only keep it activated it so NTL can bill me via e-mail. Even the contacts list is unused.

I guess I should simply put NTL in the contact list, then set up a rule to delete all other messages from the server - just toooo lazy really!

Still, I do often wonder where the spammers get my NTL address from?????

John

**emr** · April 24th, 2005, 12:30 AM

GFI MailEssentials & MailSecurity running on an Exchange 2k3 Server.

Very few spam now; I would estimate about four a week.

emr

**thomasca** · April 29th, 2005, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by Atodini

On my regular everyday POP3 webmail I only get maybe 10 a day but on my other e-mail account, which is kept on our server, (the one supplied by my isp, NTL), it is always in the high hundreds / low thousands daily!! (despite changing it at least twice in the last couple of years).

Just checked and in the last 36 hours or so, (since I last accessed it) there have been 1237 messages, all spam!

All the usual stuff of course, viagra, fake watches, sex, mortgages etc

Ah well, select all/delete/empty deleted items folder....

Interestingly, I've never actually used the current address, or given it to anybody - I only keep it activated it so NTL can bill me via e-mail. Even the contacts list is unused.

I guess I should simply put NTL in the contact list, then set up a rule to delete all other messages from the server - just toooo lazy really!

Still, I do often wonder where the spammers get my NTL address from?????

John

They probably got it from NTL.