# I have 246 emails **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 24, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739 "2003-04-24T01:36:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739/41 "2003-04-25T03:24:53Z")
75 spams today 4 mortgate rates 1 spammer that somehow knew my middle name was Aloysius 3 prescription drug offers 1 warning against the four horsemen of the apocolypse 1 bankruptcy avoidance deal 1 DVD burner deal 1 asking me if I’m depressed 1 offering of ecological wonders 2 earn money fast 1 earn college degree 3 fat flushers 1 increase penis size 1 debt terminator 1 home pharmacy 1 premature aging 2 trick titles to increase penis size 1 suggestion 1 as seen on tv 1 get printer ink 3 get prescribed meds 1 golf club 1 grow biologically younger 1 have you seen these amazing pictures? 1 HGH antiaging formula 1 hot cocksucker 1 I got laid off 1 I saw you at work 1 in reference to my account 1 herbal mediecine infor for men 1 look twenty years younger 1 lose weight now 1 make $96,320 in six months 1 Maxim 1 more information 1 Norton antivirus 1 new jigsaw puzzles 1 no cost cellular 1 no way BZPRcfkJo 2 one hundred and fity dollar credits at Crystal Palace Casino 1 online photo album 1 Viagra 1 pay less interest 1 ready to fly R/C planes and boats 1 recieve every cable channel 1 take charge and get the medi… 1 the amazing new smart mini… 1 the Rock + Goldberg = someone 1 w32.kwbot.f.worm is spreading 1 want to join us? (from Jennifer, who sent a rather lewd picture of herself and some friends) 1 when I take her to the drag she really shines 1 why so blue 1 will save you money 2 work from homez 1 re: zTofTMI (which turns out to be a get out of debt free proposition) ---
**Author:** ![CelraySoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@CelraySoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelraySoda)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739/42 "2003-04-25T04:00:24Z")
I have AOL…aren’t they doing something like sueing the companies that offer mass email software and the people that send them out or is it all just bullshit? Even with my hotmail filter on…I still get mortgage rates, lower my credit, teen runaway sluts (tempting, but no), Viagra and of course, the penis enlargement pills. I once had my email account and password stolen and used to send mass emails for a porn site at like 5 in the AM. Aol closed my account because of this…I was wondering why I was getting so many emails from people for me to remove them. BASTARDS! -M ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739/43 "2003-04-25T08:22:21Z")
I wonder if it would be possible to sign up for an e-mail account at a free web-based mail, and then see just how much spam one could receive in one 24 hour period. I think I see a new contest coming. ---
**Author:** ![kitarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kitarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitarak)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739/44 "2003-04-25T09:27:53Z")
Try using Mozilla’s mail client to read your e-mail. It has a built in spam-filtering service, where you teach it to recognise spam mail by indicating what mail is and isn’t and then once it gets sufficiently good at recognising it you can set it to move all spam mail to a dedicated junk folder. I still have to check the junk folder every now and then to make sure there aren’t any false positives, and a couple e-mails get through the filter into my main inbox, but it catches about 90-95% of the spam. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739/45 "2003-04-25T13:15:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sterra \* > \*\*You should have one email where you sign up to websites at and one email for communication. > > I have gotten no spam at all since I started doing that. > \*\* Doesn’t matter. I once opened a brand new account, brand new address, gave it to nobody, never used it, AND STILL GOT SPAM. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739/46 "2003-04-25T16:19:43Z")
Not to hijack the thread or anything, but **Scylla** - concerning your middle name…I think you might be my father. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739/47 "2003-04-25T19:38:28Z")
**Barbarian** , I’ve had a similar experience. My company has a small account with Prodigy for our laptop (yes, we’ve only got one–we’re fairly small). The email address has never been used except to access Prodigy. We’ve never given it out, anywhere. At all. Actually, I don’t think I’ve even mentioned it to anybody else in the company. It’s not something that any reasonable human being would use as their own address (random letters). It’s that secret. We still get buttloads of spam. Gee, do you think an ISP whose name starts with P and ends with Y sold us up the river? Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739/48 "2003-04-25T22:34:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\*A word of warning **Lobsang** - Finish readong someone’s post before you reply to it. \*\* I’m not usually one to point at typos, but “re a dong” is actually pretty appropriate for a junk email thread. -M ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739/49 "2003-04-26T02:28:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mooch \* > \*\*Not to hijack the thread or anything, but **Scylla** - concerning your middle name…I think you might be my father. > > :eek: \*\* How old are you and where were you were born and what’s your Mom’s first name? ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739/50 "2003-04-28T19:30:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\*How old are you and where were you were born and what’s your Mom’s first name? \*\* **Scylla** , I doubt you are _really_ my old man, you guys just share an unusual middle name. Just in case, I am 26yrs old. ---
**Author:** ![Maltrasea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Maltrasea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maltrasea)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739/51 "2003-04-29T06:29:35Z")
Mmm I hate spam. I get about 10 emails a day (24 hr period) that I actually know who it is from. But all together I get about 700 emails a day. One day I went and logged off at 4am with nothing new in my inbox, got back up at 9am, logged on and geez if I didn’t have 200 spammers lined up and ready to slap me with their emails. _huffs_ Some days when I know it’s just a full box of spam, I play games with it. See how many emails I can delete in 30 seconds. I am doing fairly well at it, seeing as how much practice I get. _chuckles_ ---
**Author:** ![futureman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3da27b/32.png) [@futureman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/futureman)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739/52 "2003-04-29T06:41:50Z")
I just got a letter from “your attorney” Please, who would fall for that one? ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739/53 "2003-04-30T09:54:09Z")
Hey guys good news in this thread[over here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=180755) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-246-emails/170739.md?page=2)