[guzzler]

Just a query as to how much spam you receiver per day into your principle email account? I worked out over a week, that in any 24 hour period, I received 200!! pieces of spam for about 3 useful emails!

so, post your count and any good ways of beating the blasted spammers!!

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[D-EJ915]

I just started getting viagra spam recently, It's like...ugh...I hate spam, especially since it's my Important email-account.

 

[PeterG]

One account, spam free for two years. I just don't use the e-mail account for anything other than people I know. Since it's my server, no random generator will target it. Unless someone who I know personally uses my e-mail address, it should stay this way.

 

[Helloween]

I switched broadband providers and it seems to have stopped totally. On an average day i would get only 5-10 pieces of spam mail though...not too bad compared to 200

 

[jpburton5150]

my email adress is like 3 years old and i still only get like 30 per day but i dont really mind cus i like reading all the creative spellings of the word P3|\|15 and \/14GR4 and i dont really get that much real valuable email anyway

 

[guzzler]

i'm seriously considering closing my account of 7 years and taking out another account with the same provider... the filters in place take out a third to a half of all, but even so... some of the pieces are seriously explicit and offensive and little kiddies could use this computer (ok, well, we share the computer with everyone in the house!)

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[Music Fanatic]

By far the majority of my incoming e-mail. Thank heaven for aggressive spam filters.

 

[CaptBubba]

I get three to six a day but my filter catches every single one of them. All of them are either offering to "enhance the length and width of your willy!" (actual spam subject) or for prescription drugs, specifically viagra.

The best thing I've done is to get bayesian spam filtering. I use Thunderbird which has a good built in bayesian filter, but I tried Spambayes for outlook and it worked very well. The best thing to do is to keep you spam and your good mail. Using this large presorted group you can train any mail filter.

In case you didn't know, a Bayesian spam filter is customised to your email. If looks at how often words are used in spam and ham (good) messages. As mail comes in it scores them based on the ratio of spam words to ham words. With enough training they can acheive very high accuracy (over 90%) and can self adapt to new spamming tricks.

 

[DanT]

2 year old email practicaly spamless. Just be carefull not to give email to any junk site and never ever reply to any remove from list link, just delete or block the thing.