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lefty
07-04-2004, 06:00 PM
The amount of spam I get in my inbox just increased by, like, 200% in the past 2 days. I was gone for a couple days and I get back and there's 20 junk emails, not too bad, but it was empied last night... and now I just checked it and there were another 25 spam-type things.

I rarely use that address when I fill things out (I have another address I use in those cases; I never check it), so I have no idea where it came from! I'm so confused :P

Makar
07-04-2004, 09:20 PM
You know, I heard in the future there won't even be any spam; there'll be so many tools to block it that they'll just give up. Wouldn't that be nice? :P

weird girl
07-04-2004, 11:49 PM
I've been fortunate... even my "spam" email address only gets about 7-15 spam emails a day :P
Spam is very evil though :(

HermioneLovegoo
07-05-2004, 12:58 AM
I only get 15-20 spam e-mails a week:-). It's weird, because I use my e-mail adress for everything.

Munchkin
07-05-2004, 01:51 AM
i get tons of spam....its ridiculous.

jtchange
07-05-2004, 02:10 AM
i get spam sent mostly to my yahoo account because it has the bulk thing that doesn't count against ur space, so that's nice, but if i get spam at my Gmail address, that won't be a problem...hehe

-=[Lauren]=-
07-05-2004, 02:22 AM
There's actually a program which you can get that sends the spam back to the account that sent it to you and tells them your address doesn't exists. Which means they won't try to send it again. ;)

Alcy
07-05-2004, 05:09 AM
Strangely, my university email account gets more junkmail than my hotmail account. I forgot about my uni email for a few months and when I logged in, there were over 1000 junk emails. Quite odd that.

lefty
07-05-2004, 05:55 AM
I always get spam at my school account! I thought they were supposed to block it, or something. I obviously don't check it much over the summer, so I'll check it every other day or so. I have to delete 2 pages of junk mail every time I log in. :confusion

Owlie42
07-05-2004, 06:28 AM
I think my AOL account gets more spam than my Yahoo! one, which is odd, because that's the one I use for everything.

Dude128
07-05-2004, 06:59 AM
i really hope I don't start getting tons of stuff in my school e-mail account. the whole thing is awkward to use and it's even a pain to check :P

I seem to be getting less spam than I used to. AOL now has a spam folder thing, but even that usually remains empty, or it will occassionally have 1 or 2 e-mails (sometimes they're valid, which is annoying because there seems to be no easy way to determine what goes where, and even if you indicate that one e-mail isn't spam, all further e-mails from the same address still go to the spam folder). good thing I should hopefully have a week or so remaining on AOL, then it's DSL for me :P

LesPaul59
07-05-2004, 11:48 AM
I don't get Spam with comcast...score.

Chris
07-05-2004, 12:54 PM
Luckily I don't get any spam - dunno why, but I sure am glad! :D

Thanks
Chris

kittycat
07-05-2004, 04:21 PM
I used to get loads of spam in my hotmail account, but now it's down to about 10-20 emails a day in there. Much more controllable since I set the junk mail settings to exclusive, those other two settings don't do anything at all. I have all forwards directed into there as well :P Those are just as bad, if not worse, than spam.

evil_styrofoam
07-05-2004, 05:56 PM
Bah, you just have to be careful of what you sign up for. I get no spam because i only sign up for things that i really trust. If i sign up for something that says they will send you "third party offers" ill use my spam address..

MaGiCSuN
07-05-2004, 09:18 PM
You know, I heard in the future there won't even be any spam; there'll be so many tools to block it that they'll just give up. Wouldn't that be nice? :P

i wish that would be reality :P
that would be so nice ;)