Did anyone notice spam decreasing lately ?

[boran]

now this might be something strange, or just remporarily ...

but I have a 5 year old hotmail account, and about every spammer in the world must have me on his list.

and I used to get around 30 to 60 spam mails a day. but lately this has dropped down to 1

anyone else noticed a decrease in spam ?

(not that I'm complaining, it's just odd)

 

[microAmp]

Mine have increased on a old spam account, just right for the holiday season.

 

[Czar]

checking inbox
retreving 8500 emails
wait
eudora crashes


havent checked that mailbox in a few months

 

[Spyro]

Doesn't hotmail have spam filters?

 

[corkyg]

No - I am getting on average 100 spams a day. There is an interesting thing being considered now by Congress - whether or not to set up a bounty on spammers. That would release a lot of hackers and others with the incentive to get paid for identifying and pinpointing a spammer to authorities in light of the recent legislation. But - the real problem is that more than half of my spam comes from offshore sources in Europe, Asia, and Africa. How can our laws be applied? I say they can't.

So, we continue fighting the battle. If there were zero sales success, that would eventually cause it to dry up - but as long as there is one sucker out there willing to get his penis enlarged, the spam will continue unabated.

 

[screw3d]

Hey I thought it was only me, but yeah I DID notice that I am receiving less spam on my hotmail account (which is, unfortunately, my primary account).

 

[Sid59]

i check my hotmail account through thunderbird and oddly only recieved 1 SPAM mail in the last 4 days. No clue.

i kinda miss getting that 3 pieces a spam when i check my email.

 

[Mitzi]

Originally posted by: corky-g
But - the real problem is that more than half of my spam comes from offshore sources in Europe, Asia, and Africa. How can our laws be applied? I say they can't.

The laws mean nothing unless you can get the off-shore offenders on American soil.

My solution...

Send the spammers a letter stating they've won a free, all-expenses paid luxury holiday to DisneyLand to entice them to America, then shackle 'em in cuffs the moment they step off the plane

(Disclaimer: This post should be taken in jest btw )

 

[boran]

well, in europe spamming is allready illegal, but there is not really any action to get the spammers arrested.

and my hotmail is also my primary account it was just too handy to have my own name regged, and not my name and some numbers etc

 

[neilm]

My hotmail account it has decreased, but my POP3 account it has increased.

 

[boran]

hmmh, I see a lot of hotmail ppls saying it decreased, did MS finally get their servers spam protected ?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Less on my Yahoo account over the past week

 

[BZ]

mine decreased - I cancelled my old account. Now I use 3 accounts: one real, one for typing in at legitimate websites that require an email address, and one for places I really don't trust.

 

[beatle]

I never get spam on my domain accounts. It's easily worth the $4/mo I spend on it just for that. My old VT account gets boatloads and it's getting worse by the day.

What's worse is the influx of SPIM, or Instant Messenger spam. I don't want to block everyone buy those on my buddy list because I occasionally have old friends messaging me or new ones that just received my sn. I am now getting a half dozen of these a day. It does no good to block them since they always start up a new account.

 

[SemperFi]

Now that you mention it I was getting at least one email a day on buying perscriptions online. Sometimes 2-3 and I haven't recieved one in several days.

Maybe the people pushing the send button are on Christmas vacation already.

 

[mbackof]

Spam has increased on my primary account, which is a yahoo one. Though I don't get many repeat spammers once I report the message as spam. Yahoo is pretty good about filtering reported messages.

 

[MedicBob]

Increasing here.

 

[Staver]

Hmm, I guess it isn't just me. Hotmail used to generate 170+ spams per week. Now it's closer to 20. I think this took effect when they redesigned the Hotmail site.

 

[Looney]

I've definitely noticed a decrease in spam with Hotmail. I use to get 50+ a day, now i get only 1 or 2.

 

[Fern]

No noticable decrease here. But I'm not on Hotmail. Did'nt a new law get signed recently on this very topic?

 

[Jeff7]

Mine's increasing a bit. Instead of 1 SPAM a week to my main account, I get 1 every other day now.

 

[SemperFi]

Nevermind I have gotten 4 more meds spam since my last post. I was hoping though.

The b!tch of it is they don't offer an unsubscribe in the email. Most of them don't have my email in the address either. :|

 

[JavaMomma]

decrease on my hotmail acount
increase on my non-hotmail account

 

[crisscross]

maybe hotmail is now using some new anti-spam filter?

 

[MrYogi]

u might have enabled junk mail filter
switch to yahoo. its much better