I have 5 email accounts.
(1) my work email, which for a short time long ago I used for personal email. Gets about 10 a day, usually penis related. The company is about to put on a spam guard.
(2) a yahoo account I’ve had for about 8 years. Gets 40-50 a day. About 80% is knocked out by spam guard and filters. Still very annoying.
(3) a yahoo account (3 yrs) I use only for ordering off the web. It gets no spam. This was a big surprise to me.
(4) a yahoo address (2 yrs) I use for message boards and other public web stuff. This gets 10 a day, but sometimes gets a flood of spam when the address has appeared somewhere.
(5) a new yahoo account to replace spammed out #1. I’m being very careful with this one.
The spam is overwhelming and takes up way too much of my time, even though I always delete it without reading it.
My main email address only gets about 5 per day on average. My ISP has recently added spam filtering to its mail server and I hardly ever see spam at all now. For the ones that do slip past the ISP filter, Mailwasher will zap them and return a fake bounce to the spammer.
My Hotmail address which has been active for about 3 years now, gets bombarded by spam, about 10-20 per day. I use this address for all web forms that I fill in. I don’t get very much legitimate email at this address anyway, so I just check it a couple times a week and delete all the new spams that are listed there each time.
Yahoo and I get between twenty-five and forty a damn day. About half of them end up in the “Bulk Mail” folder, leaving about half for the Inbox. Most of 'em I just delete but some I report.
Getting only 30-50 a day would be great. I know that there hasn’t been a single day in years that I don’t delete at least 150-200 in a single 24 hour period, and very often it can be double that amount. That’s on our ISP provided POP3 email account. We’re letting our hotmail address lapse, because the problem is even worse over there, but that’s the one I use for registering at various sites and online shopping and such.
As far as our ISP provided e-mail…YES I’m using the filters and have been filtering out everything I can think of. I’ve given up trying to filter out everything, and concentrated on the porn. I’m not ready to explain what “**** me like a whore” and “watch me take it up the ***” means to the constant flow of kids that go through this house. (neices, nephews, my own, their friends, etc.)
About the only thing I can think of as a reason for the volume is the number of people that insist on sending me e-cards or use the “share this site with a friend” so that I can watch the poorly animated baby singing about the poo in their diaper. YES I’ve told them to stop, but it’s like hitting a wall and bouncing off, hitting a wall and bouncing off. I’m beginning to think they’re doing it out of spite.
My Hotmail account: 60-80/day. Most arrive in the “junk mail” folder.
My Compuserve account: only about 3-5/day.
My corporate account: recently jumped, for no apparent reason, from near zero to 10-20/day. This one gets lots and lots of Nigerian Scam E-mails, which I collect and find hilarious.
My hotmail account gets 5-10/week. I use theiir mail filtering and rarely give out my e-mail address. I don’t use my ISP’s e-mail and my work e-mail doesn’t get spammed, but I occassionally get glurge from co-workers, which is worse.
Oddly, Yahoo puts most of my spam into a “Bulk Mail” folder and I open it anyhow!
I’m trying to click on all the Remove buttons on the bottom, some of which are dummies, I know. Then at some future time, I’ll stop that and try to fit the remainder into block rules. But I keep running out of free rules.
logos, when spammers use those “Remove” buttons, they generally work the opposite way… Clicking on them simply confirms that the e-mail address really went to a live, possibly credulous, person, and that address is given a higher priority for future mailings. Don’t click those unless you know the mail comes from a reputable source.
My old Earthlink account, which I used for everything, got around 10 per day at its peak. I had the free Spaminator filter, so fortunately, none of the messages ever made it to my inbox.
I currently use two e-mail addresses. I have a mac.com address, which is my personal account, and a Yahoo! address, which is for stuff I sign up for, like eBay, Amazon, message boards, and other online services. My mac.com one gets no spam, which is great, as that’s how I wanted it. My Yahoo! one, surprisingly, also gets no spam. I attribute it to my limited use of it, and the fact that it’s only 4 or 5 months old.
A godawful amount. (AOHell, doncha know.) On the worst days, spam outnumbers actual mail by at least 5:1. Of course I keep earnestly clicking the “report and block spam” thing. It’s a placebo. The floods of spammers make a joke of picking them off, one by one. But it gives me something to do, along with a totally false sense of control.
Up to about three years ago I had a bad problem with spam.
I never had much luck with “most” spam filters like Outlook Express and Netscape… also you will still receive the mail on your system.
This works great for me and is free!
First I changed my POP (Primary) mail address. I notified **ONLY **my friends that are in my address book.
When I send them “a Forward” I send as “Bcc”. I asked my friends to remove me from their forward list unless they use “Bcc”. Most people don’t use Bcc and everyone’s address is shown… in time each forward has numbers of addresses that can be collected and used for spam. A forward starts out between friends but it can wind up anywhere.
Next I set up a Hotmail address. I use this address as my PUBLIC address, for posting on forums, Newsgroups, any place that I need to post my address or placing orders on the internet. I set Hotmail spam filter to EXCLUSIVE, that means ** ALL ** incoming mail not in my Hotmail address book goes to a junk folder. With one click I can check the folder or delete the complete folder. I am not notified when mail is going to the junk folder only when mail comes to my inbox… I will check it daily if I have recently placed an internet order. Usually web site order confirmation is sent immediately after placing an order. I don’t have to check the junk folder unless I wish for it auto deletes in 7 days. If the mail is one I wish to continue to receive I click “This is not junk mail”.
Since doing the above three years ago I never get spam to my POP address or to my Hotmail Inbox.
I get about 20 spams a day to my Hotmail junk folder that automatically goes down the drain.
If everyone would stop answering and buying from spam there would be no more spam.
I have two e-mail accounts. One I use purely for personal correspondence, and I don’t get any spam. The other is one I use for nonpersonal uses, like signing up for a message board or anything else that could potentially give out my address. That one gets periodic spam, maybe once a month or so.
I use GMX, which is sort of like a German-language version of Hotmail (so the people I send messages to can’t read the ads at the bottom!)
I did a little experiment a few months back. I had two email addresses that were getting spammed. For one address, I just deleted the spam as normal, blocking repeat spammers. For the second address, I actively clicked on the remove links or wrote emails saying to remove me.
At first, there was little effect, but the second account gradually got less and less spam until it was actually spam free for a couple of months. However it now gets spam again, at about the same rate as the first account. Also it took alot of effort to remove myself from all those lists.
So in conclusion, those “remove me” links really do work, but only for a short while. And in the end it doesn’t seem to matter. ( though it might have if I had continued to keep removing myself when the spam first started back up again, rather than letting it build back up. )
Personal (Yahoo) account: more than 200/day. I’ve had it for about 5 years now. When I was young and stupid, I used it to sign up for a bunch of stuff, and I really don’t want to change it because some of the things I signed up for (news services, etc.) are things I actually want, and it would be a huge pain to figure out what they all are anymore.
