Do you get alot of spam

guest2k · 1 Apr 2002, 08:28 AM

most email got spamm, some or a lot.

one of the most heavy spamm email = hotmail

kastephens · 1 Apr 2002, 08:32 AM

You know something werid though a couple of months though I signed up for a different hotmail account,cause on my old one was getting tons of spam,will in the new one since about febuary i havent got no junk mail,and i have it set to high,and then the other day,i signed up for another,no junk mail yet in that one,so i use my old one to that already had spam,i sign up for newsletters,and stuff and if i have to give my email address out i use that one.

**munchkin** · 1 Apr 2002, 08:37 AM

I use hotmail and yahoo and *if* I get spam I get it at yahoo. Hotmail's junk filter isnt set..or set to low by default, I don't really now but I don't get spam.

esTester · 1 Apr 2002, 11:42 AM

I mostly use my domain email and I almost never get any spam.

- esTester

Jeremy Howard · 1 Apr 2002, 12:23 PM

I get about 50 a day to my Hotmail account, but I only check that once a week. Otherwise I get about 2 spams a week to my other accounts.

***Edwin*** · 1 Apr 2002, 12:33 PM

I get 40-50 a day across my various email accounts. For a brief period, I was getting in excess of 1,000 spams per day, until I figured out how to switch off the "catchall" on my parked domain name collection (and believe me, when you're facing that kind of spam deluge, you learn QUICKLY!)

**DBH** · 1 Apr 2002, 12:44 PM

I get no spam at all in my FastMail, BlueFrog, C4, inbox.net, and MyRealBox

**gpdoyon** · 1 Apr 2002, 10:18 PM

I get NO SPAM in my FastMail.FM mailbox. I use the mail account from my ISP when asked to post my e-mail address on the web. The ISP provided e-mail accounts I get on average 10-20 per day per account, and I have two.

My ISP, whom I shall gladly say is Time Warner/Road Runner, has great cable modem access to the internet but is simply the WORST e-mail provideder as they do no checkin for mail coming from Open Relay servers.

Also, by their own admission their e-mail services are degraded due to the tens of thousands of e-mails their subscribers get per day.

- Gerry

gukein · 1 Apr 2002, 11:34 PM

I get spam only in my hotmail account. Most of them have a sexually explicit content.

The funny thing is that some of the spam mails have my hotmail address as it's from address. So now I've set up a filter to reject all the mails which has my name in the from field.

Guke

Boom · 2 Apr 2002, 04:50 AM

They can always use everyones emailadress
See here for that

JohnnyUtah · 3 Apr 2002, 06:13 AM

I stopped using hotmail because of the amount of spam received (mostly sexually explicit, also), even after setting my filters and blocking senders, I get a moderate amount of spam in my yahoo account, and no spam whatsoever in my fastmail account, and I haven't set up any filters whatsoever.

4 Apr 2002, 02:16 AM

I've been using Hotmail since 1995 and Y!Email since 1997.

Hotmail is the worst - it is as bad as it gets. Over 50 spam messeges a day.

Yahoo is way way better. I get only 1-2 spams a week.

I conducted experiment and opened 1 brand new Hotmail and 1 brand new Yahoo email account.

After 1 month (without using any of the accounts), the results are:

Hotmail: 38
Yahoo: 0

ikxu · 4 Apr 2002, 06:02 AM

I don't get any spam, I use fastmail.fm though, and also laposte.net

jedilizagain · 4 Apr 2002, 07:44 AM

I reopened my hotmail account that I had let go. I have gotten almost 400 spams in the last ~2 months!!!!!!

Most of it has been porn and junk. Even some mortgage and other stuff. Filters don't work and I have tried blocking @hotmail but it doesn't work.

And, I even opened a hotmail account as an experiment and that was an Abandoned account (not mine). I've gotten 20+ spams at that address. The third address I got, (well, I had another address, but there was a problem with the password, so I couldn't reopen that one), with _ between the username words, and no spam yet, since its hard to guess.

Yahoo email, I get occassional spam (less than 5 a month) (4 accounts there - one has gotten a lot because someone accidentally linked to the address on a website for the high school reunion). That makes me mad because this address was not intended to be linked to. And, its been nothing but gibberish in the subject, so its hard to make a filter.

Fastmail, I don't give that address out to anyone, and haven't gotten any Spam.

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1 Apr 2002, 08:22 AM	#1
kastephens Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 64	Do you get alot of spam spam

1 Apr 2002, 08:28 AM	#2
guest2k Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 530	most email got spamm, some or a lot. one of the most heavy spamm email = hotmail

1 Apr 2002, 08:32 AM	#3
kastephens Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 64	You know something werid though a couple of months though I signed up for a different hotmail account,cause on my old one was getting tons of spam,will in the new one since about febuary i havent got no junk mail,and i have it set to high,and then the other day,i signed up for another,no junk mail yet in that one,so i use my old one to that already had spam,i sign up for newsletters,and stuff and if i have to give my email address out i use that one.

1 Apr 2002, 08:37 AM	#4
munchkin Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Milliways Posts: 1,165	I use hotmail and yahoo and if I get spam I get it at yahoo. Hotmail's junk filter isnt set..or set to low by default, I don't really now but I don't get spam.

1 Apr 2002, 11:42 AM	#5
esTester Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 968	I mostly use my domain email and I almost never get any spam. - esTester

1 Apr 2002, 12:23 PM	#6
Jeremy Howard Ultimate Contributor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Australia Posts: 11,501	I get about 50 a day to my Hotmail account, but I only check that once a week. Otherwise I get about 2 spams a week to my other accounts.

1 Apr 2002, 12:33 PM	#7
*Edwin* Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: UK Posts: 3,118	I get 40-50 a day across my various email accounts. For a brief period, I was getting in excess of 1,000 spams per day, until I figured out how to switch off the "catchall" on my parked domain name collection (and believe me, when you're facing that kind of spam deluge, you learn QUICKLY!)

1 Apr 2002, 12:44 PM	#8
DBH Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: USA Posts: 1,533	I get no spam at all in my FastMail, BlueFrog, C4, inbox.net, and MyRealBox

1 Apr 2002, 10:18 PM	#9
gpdoyon Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Westbrook, Maine USA Posts: 462	I get NO SPAM in my FastMail.FM mailbox. I use the mail account from my ISP when asked to post my e-mail address on the web. The ISP provided e-mail accounts I get on average 10-20 per day per account, and I have two. My ISP, whom I shall gladly say is Time Warner/Road Runner, has great cable modem access to the internet but is simply the WORST e-mail provideder as they do no checkin for mail coming from Open Relay servers. Also, by their own admission their e-mail services are degraded due to the tens of thousands of e-mails their subscribers get per day. - Gerry

1 Apr 2002, 11:34 PM	#10
gukein Essential Contributor Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Kerala, India Posts: 325	I get spam only in my hotmail account. Most of them have a sexually explicit content. The funny thing is that some of the spam mails have my hotmail address as it's from address. So now I've set up a filter to reject all the mails which has my name in the from field. Guke

2 Apr 2002, 04:50 AM	#11
Boom Essential Contributor Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Belgium Posts: 202	They can always use everyones emailadress See here for that

3 Apr 2002, 06:13 AM	#12
JohnnyUtah Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 11	I stopped using hotmail because of the amount of spam received (mostly sexually explicit, also), even after setting my filters and blocking senders, I get a moderate amount of spam in my yahoo account, and no spam whatsoever in my fastmail account, and I haven't set up any filters whatsoever.

4 Apr 2002, 02:16 AM	#13
yhoogroup Guest Posts: n/a	I've been using Hotmail since 1995 and Y!Email since 1997. Hotmail is the worst - it is as bad as it gets. Over 50 spam messeges a day. Yahoo is way way better. I get only 1-2 spams a week. I conducted experiment and opened 1 brand new Hotmail and 1 brand new Yahoo email account. After 1 month (without using any of the accounts), the results are: Hotmail: 38 Yahoo: 0

4 Apr 2002, 06:02 AM	#14
ikxu Guest Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 400	I don't get any spam, I use fastmail.fm though, and also laposte.net

4 Apr 2002, 07:44 AM	#15
jedilizagain Essential Contributor Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 315	I reopened my hotmail account that I had let go. I have gotten almost 400 spams in the last ~2 months!!!!!! Most of it has been porn and junk. Even some mortgage and other stuff. Filters don't work and I have tried blocking @hotmail but it doesn't work. And, I even opened a hotmail account as an experiment and that was an Abandoned account (not mine). I've gotten 20+ spams at that address. The third address I got, (well, I had another address, but there was a problem with the password, so I couldn't reopen that one), with _ between the username words, and no spam yet, since its hard to guess. Yahoo email, I get occassional spam (less than 5 a month) (4 accounts there - one has gotten a lot because someone accidentally linked to the address on a website for the high school reunion). That makes me mad because this address was not intended to be linked to. And, its been nothing but gibberish in the subject, so its hard to make a filter. Fastmail, I don't give that address out to anyone, and haven't gotten any Spam.