AOL releases 2005 spam list

User Comments: 10

1. January 2, 2006 7:10 PM
   shounen said:
   I found some stuff on that really funny.... esp trumps viagra
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2. January 2, 2006 7:25 PM
   2old said:
   1.5 billion spam messages blocked PER DAY by AOL alone.. That is just staggering particularly when you consider the Earth's population is approx 6.5 billion.Now if I can just find a way to make a single cent every time a spam message is sent..........
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3. January 2, 2006 8:24 PM
   cyrax said:
   kids Spam is like drugs.just say no. 1.5 billion?it frightns me to think what 2006 will bring.Or maybe spam filters will get better.Take yahoo mail for instance, works so perfect i can't complain.
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4. January 2, 2006 10:49 PM
   otmakus said:
   They should invent a way to punish spammers. 80% of all emails are spams and that is a staggering number. Fine them 1 cent per spam email they send, and the number will decline dramatically (and we can live happier).
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5. January 3, 2006 2:44 AM
   MonkeyMan said:
   ppl say the craziest things nowadays. At least AOL is giving us the heads up on things. Most companies don't even come close. Great job AOL.
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6. January 3, 2006 5:13 AM
   rahuls said:
   How about employing this people to design spam filters
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7. January 3, 2006 6:51 AM
   mentaljedi said:
   Hopefully this list will get the government to do something. This is a rather big issue, and i think anyone who sends spam that's unwanted should be fined. Don't care how much the cost is, but its just the principle of fining that will reduce these outrageoius numbers.
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8. January 3, 2006 9:19 AM
   Bartzy said:
   No goverment will do anything. You need enormous resources to stop spam, and no country will get involved in that. The power is in our hands. If you get spam with a phone number, call it. Ask for the manager. If they send it to a million people, and 50,000 call them, they will collapse. I started doing that, but I saw it doesn't help so I stopped. Spam filters imporoved a lot at the past few years, but I still get quite a lot of spam to my mailbox.
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9. January 3, 2006 11:36 AM
   Rhianntp said:
   well, give aol credit for trying. pretty smart idea they have to lauch ads and so forth to alert their customers to how secure they are.
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10. January 3, 2006 5:35 PM
    DragonMaster said:
    I never got a single spam when I still was on Netscape Mail(AOL). Their spam filter DOES work. The thing is that there wasn't any spam filtering options and it was doing everything by itself and I didn't miss a mail. Unfortunately, I couldn't send any mails to Hotmail users using any SMTP servers. (M$'s fault)A good way to stop spam would be to destroy Hotmail. Every time I send a message to an Hotmail user(About 5 times a year), I receive 3 spams, even if I use an address which is not known to anyone on the Internet apart from people that receive the mails(Even if it uses my website's domain name).
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