DailyDi Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 So after too much yardwork and pollen I had to crash for a few hours. Woke up to watch SNL and check my mail. While asleep I got 719 emails. Of those, all but 48 got spam filtered. Of the 48 there were 5 that were of interest to me, and three of those were ebay keyword reports. Cleared my folders Saturday morning and now 8,091 deleted items and 1,315 spam trapped items. Link to comment
Jabez Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Whoa! I think I would be getting a new email address if I received that much spam! Link to comment
Bettypooh Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 So after too much yardwork and pollen I had to crash for a few hours. Woke up to watch SNL and check my mail. While asleep I got 719 emails. Of those, all but 48 got spam filtered. Of the 48 there were 5 that were of interest to me, and three of those were ebay keyword reports. Cleared my folders Saturday morning and now 8,091 deleted items and 1,315 spam trapped items. Gee, you need a few more email addys to keep up with Spambots like addys with common words and no symbols. "Diapergirl"would get spammed into oblivion, but "D!aper~G!rl" wouldn't Two of my email addys are spam-prone. The only reason I keep them is that I've had them like forever and I use them more for free storage than anything else Plus they're all I'll give to businesses and people until I know that they're not going to spam me They're kind of like training pants- you use them until you're sure Bettypooh Link to comment
Dubious Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 should get a e-mail that supports aliases i have that and on shady sites i use an alias, can have max 100with my current account so i wont run out any time soon Link to comment
babykeiff Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Gee, you need a few more email addys to keep up with Spambots like addys with common words and no symbols. "Diapergirl"would get spammed into oblivion, but "D!aper~G!rl" wouldn't Two of my email addys are spam-prone. The only reason I keep them is that I've had them like forever and I use them more for free storage than anything else Plus they're all I'll give to businesses and people until I know that they're not going to spam me They're kind of like training pants- you use them until you're sure Bettypooh Let the spam agents use different spellings within the subject / title etc, cause eventually all variations will be stored within server based spam filters, and spam will be history. Sorry, Bettypooh, even a non emotions whore can use the 'you got mail' emotion as part of a pictorial storyline:P 1 Link to comment
DailyDi Posted April 12, 2010 Author Share Posted April 12, 2010 Have had my two main addresses for 10 years now, too much trouble to change the settings on hundreds of sites. Link to comment
curiositykilledthecat Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 I have one hotmail acct I created just for a youtube vid that gets spammed like crazy but not nearly as bad as you DailyDI. Link to comment
Yvhuce Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Wow. I rarely have 10 spam emails per day. Of course, I'm also a bit of a recluse, so that may help... Link to comment
hidden Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 I have 3 email accounts. I have 1 spam email from Facebook on my main one and 2 or 3 pharmacy ones on my email that I use for DD. That's it. Link to comment
Yvhuce Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Over a year later, and I still rarely get up to 10 spam emails per day. Usually more along the lines of 0-3. Link to comment
mikejackson999 Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 My yahoo email addy I have had since 1997 gets around 10 spam emails a day out of 15 messages, which is way down. My ISP email addy has never been posted and is only used for household business(cable, gas/electric bills, bill pay confirmations, etc) so it never gets spam. The trick is to not use an email address that you use everywhere on sites like amazon which sell your addresses for a nickel a pop to spam mailers. I have email accounts for every place I order things online from, and also for other things, and whenever I order from a place online, I create a new email address with that place in the username, then I know which places sell email addresses once the first spam message arrives. In all, I have about 35 different email addresses which I check daily Link to comment
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