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Chris
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Here's a question. I've just checked my SpamArrest account. How many spam emails do you think I have received in the last 21 days?

Double your first answer. Double it again.

pradtf

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Originally posted by Chrismo
Here's a question. I've just checked my SpamArrest account. How many spam emails do you think I have received in the last 21 days?

Double your first answer. Double it again.
i get well over 1000 per day (people seem to think i need all kinds of things). does that make you feel good or bad? i'd like to know whether to sympathize with you or be envious 😀

i use spam assasin though it does an excellent job chopping out close to 90%

in friendship,
prad

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I left my bt account just 2 days without checking it and was the less than grateful recipiant of 450 spam emails including over 100 asking me if I want "you know what" extensions!!! 😠

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Originally posted by pradtf
i get well over 1000 per day (people seem to think i need all kinds of things). does that make you feel good or bad? i'd like to know whether to sympathize with you or be envious 😀

i use spam assasin though it does an excellent job chopping out close to 90%

in friendship,
prad
How do people manage to get so many spam e-mails? I get roughly one a week, maybe two during a bad week, and do not use any form of filter other than not giving out my e-mail address to every website around! Are you guys all on hotmail or yahoo?

mark

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Originally posted by mmanuel
How do people manage to get so many spam e-mails? I get roughly one a week, maybe two during a bad week, and do not use any form of filter other than not giving out my e-mail address to every website around! Are you guys all on hotmail or yahoo?

mark
ok!! now i am turning green!!!

one reason i get so many is because i have the default directed to me - what this means is that any misspelled items come to me. also, if someone had an email account on our server and then cancelled it, i get all their junk stuff too.

and to think when i first started on email, i looked forward to any mail, because i thought i was communicating with the outside world 😀

in friendship,
prad

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Originally posted by pradtf
i get well over 1000 per day (people seem to think i need all kinds of things). does that make you feel good or bad? i'd like to know whether to sympathize with you or be envious 😀

i use spam assasin though it does an excellent job chopping out close to 90%

in friendship,
prad
Wow!! That is awesome. I got 4025 over the three week period. SpamArrest stops 100% of my spam. It sends an automated email to any sender from whom you have not received and email in the past. If they respond to the email, then they are human and get added to your list of approved senders.

It is server based so blocked mail never even makes it as far as your computer before it is stopped. It saves blocked emails for 7 days.

I couldn't live without it now.

pradtf

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Originally posted by Chrismo
Wow!! That is awesome. I got 4025 over the three week period.
ok, fine! so i'll just turn a little greener then.

in friendship,
prad

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Spam e-mails? It used to be about 5-10 a day.🙁😠 Now it's about 2.😀🙂

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I've been working on my spam filter for years now... So don't send me emails that say stuff like

Enlarge
Free
Viagra
V1agra
Teens
Interest
Update
Weight

and so many more. I also filter right at my ISP page, they do a good job. I used to get about 50 per day... now I get about 10 or 15 that just go direct to my trash bin.

Spam Stinks!

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I get maybe 2 or 3 a day which i can cope with.I used to get a lot more, so i would find out where they came from and mailed back threatening extreme electronic violence unless they stopped sending me stuff. It even worked on a few of them 😀

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My mopther left for a buisness conference at the Gold Coast for one day...on Sunday she came back and had 5891 emails...5000 were spam.😲

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i uselt get about 50 - to - 100 a day, dosnt bother me though cause it just goes to my bulk folder witch i can press a button a delete it all

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Originally posted by Chrismo
.....It sends an automated email to any sender from whom you have not received and email in the past.......
Doesnt that make even more spam?

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I have Earthlink. To date I have received 0 spam in one year.

Mike

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Originally posted by D43M0N
My mopther left for a buisness conference at the Gold Coast for one day...on Sunday she came back and had 5891 emails...5000 were spam.😲
How long did it take her to get through the 891 that weren't spam?!

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