NationStates Jolt Archive

Spam

So, spam...

How many spam emails do you get in an average day? (Poll on its way).

Also, do you find that the spam is pretty evenly spread across all your email accounts, or is it concentrated on one or two? Do you have any email accounts that have managed to stay spam-free?

How effective do you find whatever filters you have set up on your email client? Did you create your own filter list?

How about real world spam... how much junk mail to you tend to get over the course of a week?

Last but not least... does it still annoy you? or have you arrived at a patient, almost zen-like state of mind that allows you to simply rise above the inconvenience?

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I get 5-10 spam emails on my general webmail account every day, which is easy enough to deal with unless I happen to have been away from the 'net for a couple of weeks. I have 3 other email accounts that I regularly use, and only the oldest one (it's about 7 years old) gets any spam at all, and even then it's ony once in a blue moon.

I haven't bothered reconfiguring and setting up my filters since the last time my PC died, about 2 years ago. If the spam gets worse I may revisit them but it's really not worth it at present.

There is quite a lot of junk mail that arrives through my door (I'd guess at 10-15 items per week), and it is quite annoying to have to deal with it in this age of compulsory sorting of refuse for recycling. It's far more annoying to me than the e-spam, since a) it has to be recycled, b) it represents a needless waste of resources and c) I can't be rid of it with a few swift clicks of my mouse.

For the last question... e-spam doesn't bother me in the slightest. The junk mail, on the other hand, is annoying (actually, having written the previous paragraph I now realise that junk mail really does seriously piss me off! Damn.)

My main gmail account is spam-free. My hotmail account was lost to spam years ago. I have a gmail account consisting of my surname -- a version of Halliburton -- and that account has suffered from floods of spam since the day I created it. That's life, I guess. Good thing gmail's spam filter is so effective.

My gmail account is flooded, but that's what it's there for.

Zero on average. I don't understand what the fuzz is all about, just use a spam filter.

There are only 2 kinds of spam that have ever gotten past my spam filter:
1. Stock market scams that used gif images of colorful text instead of plain text to avoid being read by the filter used to get through but are filtered now.
2. "Your friend Moron who is in your address book has invited you to some stupid website."

There are however 2 kinds of legitimate emails that have been wrongly filtered:
1. Newsletters from the Swedish Pirate Party. (No, I'm not one of them, just interested in what they're up to.)
2. Activation codes from free online games usually get through but not always.

1 to 10, but really zero, since the "spam" I get is actually stuff I signed up for but no longer care about.

The only email address I have which gets spam is my work one, which gets 40-50 a day, minimum. Trying to block spam to that would be a big mistake - being a journalist I get sent all sorts of weird and not-so-wonderful messages, some of which turn out to be important.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ7YedEopp4

IIRC only four people know my *actual* email address. Everyone else gets an address on my cjb account (where ANYTHING on it can be forwarded to me), so (1) I can set individual accounts to be reforwarded to something else (such as the the government address you report spam to XD) instead and (2) I can tell which scumbag sold their list of email accouns to spammers (as when I sign up I use an email address with the website's name in it).

I receive more than 50 spams per day.

But only less than one spam per day on average get through the filters. Gmail filters are excellent. My workmail filters are perfect. There is one other email provider, which has very bad filters.

Spam of course is not evenly distributed. One of my gmail adress that I use often inputting in internet registrations, receives tens of spammails each day. My other gmail email does not receive any.

I'm far from annoyed. I enjoy spam. Spam is fun. In a very broad sense of spam I also create spam myself (sending useless emails to friends).

I have two email accounts one gets so full of spam that I really don't use it anymore, the other I'm not really sure.

I mean I do get some spam to it, but it has become so automatic that I just delete these without even opening them that I don't have a proper count.

it has become so automatic that I just delete these without even opening them that I don't have a proper count.
Hehe, that's pretty much what prompted me to make this thread. I'd just opened my email and realised that I was deleting the spams on auto-pilot :p

For my old gmail account that I use all over the net, up to somewhere around 10 a day. It's been months now since any has slipped past the filter, and even longer since anything has been wrongly filtered.

For the new address that I use with great care, none so far.

I started using a filter on my email

I have a 6 year old account that gets 500+ a day.

I really should get rid of it.

I rarely have spam problems, I get like 2 spammails maybe every six months..

My Hotmail account: around 15 per day.

My Yahoo Account? I don't think I want to know. Frankly I'm surprised they haven't deleted the account given the amount of spam it gets. :p

For Yahoo: at least 5 or 6 a day that the spam filter doesn't catch, then probably another 10 that it does. Then probably 2 or 3 that my filters catch.

My hotmail account (which is ancient 10+ years) gets maybe 10 spam mails a week. My gmail accounts don't get spam.

About 20 or more on my main account with my university. They didn't have a decent spam filter for years and I just learned last week that now one finally can put individual settings but I've yet to do that. Lazy.

My Gmail account is absolutely spam free. I use it to talk to the bf but I've used it once or twice for spam-risky things and still nothing.