Weekend Open Forum: Is spam still a big problem for you?

Have you noticed any less spam in your inbox lately? You should, according to Symantec Intelligence, which claims the volume of junk mail sent worldwide has dropped around 80% over…

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No

Pretty much that simple. With the use of more than one email you can pretty much set it up so all your spam goes to one.

Got 3 emails and 0 spam. I'm discrete with all 3 and choose very carefully who to give my addy to.

I actually have more problems with legitimate e-mails being flagged as spam, than with spam somehow making its way into my inbox.

yes i hate it.... .

I actually have more problems with legitimate e-mails being flagged as spam, than with spam somehow making its way into my inbox. ... ditto

a few a day maybe 3 to 4 ...

I never use spam filters except in gmail as they don't work, but I've always opted out of getting email and I really don't get much. Spam is thus no problem.

Gmail eliminated spam for me since 2004 or whenever I received my invite. (there is LOTS of spam in my spam folder, but none in my inbox)

Ditto

same here, though i have had it send legit emails to spam folder

No, at worst I get 1 spam email a month.

I guess may be it is still a problem for those who register themselves with pron sites

I have been using the same yahoo email address for at least 4 years, and get maybe 5 spam emails a week, all in the spam folder. I'm more careful than i used to be about what sites i let have my email address. I did have a problem with one address when I signed up somewhere to win a free xbox; overnight more than half my emails were spam and i eventually abandoned the email address.

spam is not a prob.

a company or forum i'm a member of gets hacked and ssends me e-mails is a prob.

As other's have mentioned, having multiple e-mail accounts makes all the difference in the world. I have one specifically for online ordering and registrations and it gets the bulk of the spam, although 95% of it ends up in the spam bin anyway. It's a Yahoo! account and for me seems to do fairly well.

On the flip side of that though, some times the spam filter is a little too active and I have to dig through it to find legitimate e-mails.

But in answering the question, no spam isn't a problem for me. I don't hardly spend any time with it at all these days.

I have yahoo email account for ages, and I don't remember last time when spam ended up in my inbox, what little spam I get it always end up in the spam folder; so IMO it is as good as if not better.

nope, its almost down to zero percent now...the very that DO come go straight to the junk, and i get only about 10-20 of those per week....

i apparently am one of the last few using Hotmail on the planet, but I don't remember the last time one made it through to my inbox.

Don't worry red I am using hotmail as well, mainly because it has an excellent email client and its interface is minimalistic/simple. In fact I got yahoo and hotmail accounts since the last ice age and am happy with both of them

I still get some spam but not nearly as much as I used to. When I read about the major crackdowns on spammers (someone in Russia was one of them) quite a few months back I noticed that my spam went down a lot. From a dozen or so a day in the spam box to maybe three or four a week now (if that). Maybe one spam every two months is a legitimate e-mail. No spam has shown up in my inbox for years.

It is funny that there is supposedly an 80% decline in spam, yet over the last 6 weeks I have noticed a near 200% increase in the number of spam messages I receive. Most are filtered by gmail, though I have had to mark at least 6-7 messages/day as spam from my inbox. If this continues on an upward trend like this I will probably end up creating another primary email account.

On a related note, most of the spam I get is for "breast enlargement", but I thought my man-boobs were big enough. whatgives.jpg?