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This is something that I haven't exactly close paid attention to until recently...
I've always been getting spam in my e-mail in boxes, since I first put up my own website with dedicated e-mail address posted on the web two and a half years ago. I've used that address as my general-purpose address, my "spam magnet" if you will.
I also use the built-in mail filters for OS X's Mail.app, which have gotten very good at figuring out which messages are spam. However, until recently I wasn't confident enough in it concerning false positives to let the spam go without checking each message. Recently, I've told the automatic filtering to keep all spam out of my site completely, so rather than checking new messages (spam and otherwise) as they come in, I can shunt the spam off and scan the list every few days instead.
Since the spam has had the opportunity to collect in my junk box now, I'm getting a sense of just how much crap I'm getting -- 100+ messages a week.
I'm curious about what kind of volumes of spam other people here are getting... especially people with other personal websites -- Star Trek stuff, of course. I know that I'm not one of the hardest-hit in spam by any means, but I'm still curious about some real life figures...
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I don't have a website but still get between 7-10 pieces per day, usually on my hotmail account. The filters on hotmail are crap.
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Since I got cable, I'm getting between 50 and 100 spam e-mails a day. I've never seen anything quite like it. I delete it in the morning, when I come in from work, after 8 or 9 hours, there are usually at least 50 new e-mails.
I'm using Opera's shareware. I think I'll buy it if it will filter for me.
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Wraith: Hotmail doesn't count, it's crap and automatic spam-bait anyway. Seriously, I opened up a Hotmail account a couple of years ago for the sole purpose of using MSN Messenger (before I realized I could use my regular e-mail address). I *never* used it for *anything* and still got spam in it!
Kosh: 50 to 100 per day??? What kind of cable service are you on, anyway? That's crazy!
I've never tried to hide my website e-mail address, and there are plenty of "mailto:" links scattered around my site. Not a huge deal, IMO, it's a consequence of being open to contact from my visitors. It seems that most of the junk is the same stuff being bombarded at me again and again. I've tried bouncing messages, which doesn't work because they've spoofed the IDs, naturally.
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We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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Yesterday, I received 120+ spams... of those, only 10 weren't caught by SpamAssassin/Vipul's Razor (aka Cloudmark/SpamNet) or my filters.
(I have 18 total accounts, with 25+ addresses associated with them. Most of the spam goes to pleh.net, my old address at solareclipse, and my addresses at work.)
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Only 1 or 2 manage to get through my ISP's filters, but a lot more are sent to me. Especially if you include my now defunct hotmail address. It's horrible! If I would have replied to all of them, my penis could go from here to Jupiter and back, there's an entire continent of horny Asian teens lusting for me, I have made gazillions of dollars and have gotten every concievable university grade FOR FREE!
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Oh spam, yes I know my friend Spam well. Miserable sod!
I get between 5 (if I'm very lucky) and 30 (worst-case) a day. The strange thing is, it's all sex related!:
Increase your size, hot girls waiting, watch them play . . . and on, and on, and on! I have just two questions for these morons:
1) Why am I getting these messages when I've not signed up to any of them nor have I visited their websites?
2) Do they think that I'm incapable of getting a girl on my own without the help from Viagra? I'm 23 for crying out loud! I don't need Viagra!!!
SIGH.
So how do I get rid of them? Do I click the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom until they stop coming in or get a spam killer - if so, which one is the best?
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"So how do I get rid of them?"
You don't.
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I have 7 America Online screen names to deal with... so I closed 6 off to only accept mail from specific AOL screen names and the main account that I display here is my general box with at least 65 junk messages. A lot of them deal with refinancing and loans and the others are sex related. I believe that you can get a lot of screen names when you enter a chat room with AOL...
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quote: Kosh: 50 to 100 per day??? What kind of cable service are you on, anyway? That's crazy!
Charter. I deleted some last night, but since I had negected to pay the cable bill for the ;ast two months, it was off this morning. I paid it at lunch time, and it was on when I get home. Only 20 e-mails since last night. It's been a good day.
When I get around to it, I plan on asking Charter about using some kind of filter, but I suspect they are selling the addresses. I signed up a week before I could get the modem to work, First time I logged on, I had 180.
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The worst spam I ever got was through some bug (feature) in MSN Messenger which allows a popup over the internet. And it was a popup saying that I could protect myself from these popups by using their software. But THEY were the only ones using these popups. So send them a nasty e-mail using a different e-mail address. I got no reply, but suddenly that address is spammed
They called themselves PopupBarrier.com. I hope they die and burn in hell.
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Seriously, I opened up a Hotmail account a couple of years ago for the sole purpose of using MSN Messenger (before I realized I could use my regular e-mail address). I *never* used it for *anything* and still got spam in it!![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
What kind of cable service are you on, anyway? That's crazy!![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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