Opening Pandora's Inbox

[hbdragon88]

Today in the Los Angeles Times I read a very intersting article on how first started and how it's exploded into a huge colossal problem...

I went online and found the article. Unfortunanely you need to be a member to read the article but I got around that by getting the link for the printable version - it doesn't require regristration. I've checked that by opening a different browser and pasting in the link.

http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la-fi-spam11may11&section=/printstory

 

[kring]

I have hopes some day that we can get a better handle on spam emails. I get a minimum of 500 spam a day, with occasional highs of 750 in my main email address. These get deleted unread. If I don't recognize the sender or something in the subject, it gets deleted.

 

[hbdragon88]

Wow! That's a lot. It usually takes a few weeks in my most spammiest account to hit the 6MB limit (it's a yahoo address).

 

[funxus]

Originally posted by kring
I have hopes some day that we can get a better handle on spam emails. I get a minimum of 500 spam a day, with occasional highs of 750 in my main email address. These get deleted unread. If I don't recognize the sender or something in the subject, it gets deleted.

Have you thought about getting a new address? Or maybe some filter? 500 spam mails It must be easier to tell those who mail you your new address than deleting 500 mails per day.

I get like 4 spam mails max per week.

 

[hbdragon88]

Hopefully it's a free email address, not your ISP one, or else it wouldn't be as easy to drop.

Did you read the article? The FCC conducted a test with aol screen names. After posting in a religious chat room with a newly created AOL sn, there were 21 spam messages in the email box. They created another one and hid it and in seven months there were 5,125 spam messages in it.

AOL blocks 2.7 billion spam messages each day, yet enough gets through to get AOLers frustrated.

 

[Turner]

We use the 'Report as Spam' button on AOL. It has cut down significantly my spam.

I've very careful of who I give my main email addy too. Ironically, it's a free account. But virtually spam free.