I have finally been overrun by spammers. I have had the same hotmail account since 1997, and have been pretty successful at keeping spam out of it. I use it as my primary email, or should I now say used it as my primary email. I rather liked hotmails blocking features, but the fucking spammers in the last 4 months have pushed me past my block limit so now I am fucked. I can’t block specific email addresses anymore because of the 250 address limit. The fucking spammers send email with email addresses that say they are from aol.com and yahoo.com, so I can’t block the domain or I risk missing email from real people.
I know I lasted longer than most people did with my hotmail account, but it still sucks that I can’t use it for email anymore. I had to switch to yahoo. I get about 2-3 porn, diploma, or loan approvals every few hours now. I use MSN messenger too so it was nice to hear a chime when I got email and I could check it. Now I need to turn off that feature because it goes off all day long telling me how I can see Amber’s virgin pussy take a 13" black cock deep inside. I also liked Outlooks integration.
Oh well, fuck it. Fucking spammers can eat a shit sandwich. Fuck nuggets. They got me. They fucking got me.
Why don’t you try to delete some of the older blocks you have in place in preference for the newer addresses. I can’t believe spammers would keep using the same address over and over for a long period of time. They have to retire these things sometime, right?
This works for me, and I’ve had my hotmail account for years:
Block everything except what you have in your address book. It send everything to the “Junk Mail” folder. I browse it every other day or so to see if there’s an e-mail from someone trying to find me, then kill it all. The only thing I get in my main mailbox is the mail I want. Whenever I give my address out to someone, I tell them to give me a day or so to put them in the address book so I don’t kill thier mail by accident. It works very well for me.
I’m averaging 70-100 spam messages a day on my Hotmail account :eek:.
Try using ‘custom filters’ to divert messages containing certain keywords in the subject line to your trash can or junk mail folder. I’ve selected about twenty words that are unlikely to show up in a legit subject line, such as ‘Viagra’, ‘Credit’, ‘Rates’ and ‘$’; now only about one in ten spams get through.
The thing I’m hoping for is that federal legislation be passed that any E-mail advertisement contain the the word ‘advertisement’ or ‘adv’ in the subject line, to facilitate filtering. Of course, this concept is far too simple for lawmakers ever to consider.
I’ve had luck cutting down junk mail by going through each mail’s “opt-out” link. Doesn’t cut down everything, but it significantly reduces the amount of junk mail I get. You might want to try it.
I second welby1’s suggestion. That’s exactly what I do. Yahoo has been the bad one lately, in terms of spam getting into the inbox despite extensive filtering. Hotmail receives the most, but a quick check every other day of the senders, and it all goes ‘buh-bye’
This works with reputable companies. Beyond that it’s almost guaranteed to increase junk mail - a lot of spam is intended to spark such a reaction, thereby confirming a valid email address for resale to other spammers.
I just have to take this moment to again sing the praises of a new piece of software I found that has actually saved my life and my sanity: Spamfire. It works with a regular email account, and it was brilliantly designed. After a little tweaking here and there, it catches all of the bad and none of the good. It’s a beautiful thing. (it’s not based on email addresses, it is much more sophisticated and effective than that.)
Unfortunately, it only works with Macintosh, although I think they are working on a PC version. (Now ya know how it feels. )
I’d heard that as well. All I can tell ya is that I went from getting 20-30 spam emails a day to about 4 after spending a week hitting the “opt-out” button on every email that had 'em.
All this makes me wonder why I never have trouble with my yahoo account. I don’t know what spam-killing spirits I have watching over my email, but if any of you want some you can have a few.
Maybe you were lucky and were only getting ‘reputable’ spam. I’m glad it worked out though.
Hotmail-bashers (not that I’m a lover of the service, but I do think it gets some unreasonable criticism compared to other providers) may be interested to learn that Hotmail has signed up with filtering specialists Brightmail in an effort to reduce the amount of junk mail.
I would be interested to see if it makes any difference at all. Any opinions?
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