I do not know if I am alone, but lately the amount of SPAM I am receiving has been through the roof. Putting aside the fact that I am amazed that all of these people know that I need to lose weight, earn more money at home, and have a bigger penis, I find the email annoying, to say the least.
At any rate, because of SPAM, I have 5 email addresses, of which only two are public. One of those is a hotmail account that I use for this weblog. I am not sure how the hotmail filter works, but I am assuming that every time I block someone, somewhere at Hotmail HQ this is tallied (for me individually so I receive no more mail from that source, and for the company). If my assumption is correct, providers like AOL, YAHOO, and Hotmail, once they receive enough tallies from individuals like me regarding a particular source, will ban that source. If that is indeed the case, I hereby plead with all fellow Hotmail users to do as I do- block the spam source every time you get one in your junk mail folder. This is the only thing I can think to do to fight it.
If I am correct in my assumptions, let me know.
sirshannon
That only works for a about a week. You can only have 250 email addresses on your block list.
Bird Dog
I was getting about 20 to 30 spams a day, so I got McAfee’s SpamKiller, which I click on before I open my e-mail program. It blocks about 80% to 90% of the spams, and then I can filter out the rest.
TM Lutas
The problem is that advertisers have no better method of reaching you than spam. If people would find a better method than spam, advertisers wouldn’t give money to spammers and the practice would die out.
This is the real problem, the creaking inefficiency of advertising models that aren’t properly tuned to the internet age.
freelixir
John, take my advice and go with Yahoo. Their “Bulk Mail” folder is the bomb. I average only a few, if that, spam mails a day in my regular “In Box”. The rest get filtered to the “Bulk Mail” folder, which has a convenient “Erase” link so you don’t even have too look at it.
I never do. Go Yahoo, they’ve got the competition killed on this one. I’m shocked to hear, from many more people from you, how much spam mail they receive. On Yahoo, of which I have several accounts, I get nothing meaningful in terms of unwanted mail.
Pauly
It’s strange, but I get maybe 2-3 spam mails a day in my main hotmail box, and maybe another 4 in the junk mail box. My girlfriend, however, gets 30-40 spam msgs in her inbox at Hotmail. I don’t know what the difference is.