# 87 Spam messages today **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 5, 2002, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87-spam-messages-today/140610 "2002-12-05T02:50:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87-spam-messages-today/140610/1 "2002-12-05T02:50:37Z")
So I merrily checked my email today, a daily habit of mine. And what did I find? Did I find anything from my friends? from relatives? Or from a cute girl asking for a date? NO! Far be it from me to be fortunate enough to get a real message from a real human being. Eighty Seven fucking messages, all from today, all spam. Fuck you, you stupid annoying greedy fucks, for filling my mailbox with shit that I don’t want to be there. I have NEVER bought ANYTHING that you have advertised, EVER. And neither has anyone I know. Can’t you get a fucking clue? I will relish the day that your black hearts stop beating and the world is relieved of your miserable existence. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87-spam-messages-today/140610/2 "2002-12-05T03:09:54Z")
If you use your Yahoo e-mail, try playing around with their spamguard. It’s helped a lot for my own account. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87-spam-messages-today/140610/3 "2002-12-05T04:43:47Z")
Man, good luck. I’ve got a Yahoo acount, and even with Spamguard, I usually get ~100 spam messages a day that are filtered properly, and maybe an additional 30 that aren’t. This is insane! Where is the anti-spam legislation? ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87-spam-messages-today/140610/4 "2002-12-05T04:48:59Z")
Stuck behind the RIAA sponsored bill to make you pay for every elevator music song you hear. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87-spam-messages-today/140610/5 "2002-12-05T05:27:12Z")
I get several hundred spam messages per day. That is way, way down from what it used to be, now that I’m the “test subject” for the [inter.net](http://inter.net) server-side spam filtering software. (Nice to be married to the sysadmin, innit) Of the spam I do get, about 80% of it gets properly filtered. I love the spam domain I have that lets me set email addresses to whatever username I want… say I sign up at Lame Site A. I use the email address lamesitea@(my spam domain). All mail that comes to \*@(my spam domain) gets filtered into its own folder (which gets tossed in the garbage every other day or so). Every once in a while I poke through it to see who has been selling my name. Like that “win a whole half of a dead cow from Omaha steaks” spam that is addressed to onlinemerchantb@(my spam domain)… interesting. I have a whole lot of random spam (lately it is for Motorola phones) addressed to chocolate@(my spam domain) … I don’t remember what site it was but it was something to do with chocolate. Lol. ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87-spam-messages-today/140610/6 "2002-12-05T08:32:13Z")
I only use my college email to contact other people at school or relatives. However, once I used my college email to register for one of those board services where anyone can create a message board for free. Because of that, I’d get maybe one or two spam emails a month. Recently, I emailed **Tubadiva** about an extra user name I’d created due to a misunderstanding (remember when the boards were down last year and we had to use that surrogate for a couple weeks?). Since then I’ve been getting one or two spam emails DAILY. I haven’t contacted anyone new since then, and the appearance of the spam messages corresponds to when I emailed TD. Is it possible that some bastards, possibly AOL themselves, have been ransacking her outbox for email addresses? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87-spam-messages-today/140610/7 "2002-12-05T09:05:20Z")
The person who invents a way of getting revenge on spammers will make a fortune. I am a woman. I really don’t want a bigger penis. I am not interested in seeing anyone named Jennifer naked. Leave me alone! Why dont we start an email that just says “Boycott spammers. Pass it on”? ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87-spam-messages-today/140610/8 "2002-12-05T15:02:49Z")
Have any of you tried the highest level filter? I initiated mine on hotmail about 6 months ago, and no spam since. Only mail coming from the people in my address book can get through. I just made sure I had everyone I wanted to hear from entered in the address book, and if I get a new address, I just add it. ---
**Author:** ![Shabadu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Shabadu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shabadu)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87-spam-messages-today/140610/9 "2002-12-05T18:37:09Z")
I have the same problems with my yahoo account. I get somewhere between 100-150 spam messages per day. All but 30-40 get filtered into my “bulk mail” folder, but I still have to go through the ones in my inbox to get to the messages that are really important. I use the “this is spam” option every day, and I still get the same messages through. I am to the point of needing to change my email address. I don’t mind sorting through, but I have people who send me rather large emails that I need, and I don’t want to pay extra for my mailbox in order to have space for all of the spam. I would pay money to anyone who figures out a foolproof way to stop this. It would be more worth it to me than to pay for a bigger mailbox that I don’t need. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87-spam-messages-today/140610/10 "2002-12-05T19:06:27Z")
Something i discovered with the Yahoo “this is spam” thing - you can check BOTH boxes at the second screen. I was always just checking “report this message”, but I was still getting a lot of spam from the same source (a mango casino spammer especially) and then I realized I can check both boxes - both reporting the message and blocking the address. Maybe you all are smarter than me and already figured that out, but it was a big :smack: for me. ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87-spam-messages-today/140610/11 "2002-12-05T20:46:49Z")
For a while there I was forwarding all my spam to a [president@whitehouse.gov](mailto:president@whitehouse.gov) address. After a day or two I used [vice.president@whitehouse.gov](mailto:vice.president@whitehouse.gov) I think I’m on the whitehouse spam filter ☹ There is one congressman who needs a smarter staff however 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87-spam-messages-today/140610/12 "2002-12-05T23:49:21Z")
Minor hijack - when filling out a form on a website and you think a spammer is going to use the e-mail address, is there some e-mail address that you can put that would cause the spammer to spam his own ISP abuse desk?? Someone once told me “abuse@localhost” would do the trick, but I don’t see how that would work. ---
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/87-spam-messages-today/140610/13 "2002-12-06T00:34:44Z")
**DarrenS** , that will work if you replace _localhost_ with the local host, ie, [abuse@aol.com](mailto:abuse@aol.com) or [abuse@earthlink.com](mailto:abuse@earthlink.com) as most ISPs have a mailbox named abuse, failing that try _postmaster_ I know that [Mailwasher](http://mailwasher.net)can now run your hotmail or MSN mail through it to eliminate spam, it may be worth fleeing other webmails to be able to add that functionality. I do love that proggie so