ever successfully get rid of spam?

[zCypher]

One of my email addresses gets increasingly bad for spam, so I use it less and less. But it's at the point where it's at least 30+ per day. It gets really annoying, it used to be my primary and CLEAN email address.

I don't want to spend any money on software that 'might' work or might not work. Have you tried unsubscribing to all the spam? Usually doesn't work huh? Any ideas/techniques I haven't thought of maybe?

 

[vshah]

get gmail....pm me if you want an invite

 

[vshah]

yeah forgot to say...your email addy is lost. i doubt there's much you can do to clear it from spam....

 

[bandana163]

Get a new account at Yahoo/Gmail/anywhere else and don't sign up for any newsletters.

 

[vood0g]

30+/day, thats not too bad. i get 150+/day with my yahoo mail. the yahoo spam filter is pretty good, so a good 95% of the crap goes to bulk mail.

 

[agnitrate]

i couldn't breathe, holding me down,
hand in my face, kissing the ground,

emnity gauged, united by fear, supposed to endure what i could not forgive

-silver

 

[Schadenfroh]

Yes, changed my email address and got thunderbird

 

[40Hands]

If you use Outlook to access this e-mail address you speak of then get a program called spambayes...google it. If its a web-based addy then your effed...

 

[alent1234]

at home i switched to google for email

at work we implemented greylisting that stops something like 99% of spam. Legit email servers will resend a message if it doesn't get delivered. Greylisting stop suspicious emails and sends an error code to the sending server. Spam servers send once and ignore the code. Legit servers will attempt to resend the message. If it is resent then it is allowed to be delivered. Otherwise the message is dropped.

We run this on an smtp server called xwall, and it cost us $349 including lifetime support and upgrades

 

[whistleclient]

i was like you, then i started using "SpamPal"

it's completely free and allows whitelists, so you never have to worry about missing an important email

 

[SearchMaster]

I like SpamPal too. It's not perfect, but it filters out probably 95%+ of the spam I get, and has only mistagged probably 5 emails ever for me (in > a year of use). It's good enough as far as I'm concerned....the fact that 1 or 2 spams make it to my Inbox per day doesn't get my panties in a bunch.

 

[bleeb]

my aol account is like this 30+ spam emails.. it's annoying.

 

[dullard]

I had a problem once, unsubscribed, a flood of new ones came in, unsubscribed to the new flood, and no more for the last 6 months.

There are only so many spammers they can sell your address to. Once you unsubscribe to all of them you are set.

Of course, everyone here hates doing that. But if you are at 30+ a day, you'll probably have to scrap it anyways. Doesn't hurt to try.

 

[EMPshockwave82]

just sit on it for a while and dont use it to sign up for anything... it'll eventually get less and less spam