I once tried to setup an email account and tried to see how many pieces of spam I could actually get by trying to sign up for things. This was so I could test various spam filters. I remember getting bored of the project because I just couldn't get enough spam. Little did I know that the solution was just around the corner.
So I got my mom an email account with gmail. Let's just say after 3 months she gets on the order of 500 pieces of spam A DAY. That's 15000 pieces of spam a month. You haven't really lived until you're going through your mom's email and she excitedly exclaims "I want to keep that one!!" in a huge pile of spam in her inbox. I looked at her in disbelief and slowly said "email isn't supposed to work like this."
Gmail's spam filter is awesome imo, at least for me, but it is virtually useless against this juggernaut of spam. I have no idea how in the world she signed up for so many things that led to spam.
Moral of the story. When you get your computer illiterate mother a spam account, tell her the dangers of signing up for that cooking "newsletter."
So I got my mom an email account with gmail. Let's just say after 3 months she gets on the order of 500 pieces of spam A DAY. That's 15000 pieces of spam a month. You haven't really lived until you're going through your mom's email and she excitedly exclaims "I want to keep that one!!" in a huge pile of spam in her inbox. I looked at her in disbelief and slowly said "email isn't supposed to work like this."
Gmail's spam filter is awesome imo, at least for me, but it is virtually useless against this juggernaut of spam. I have no idea how in the world she signed up for so many things that led to spam.
Moral of the story. When you get your computer illiterate mother a spam account, tell her the dangers of signing up for that cooking "newsletter."
