Shiv wrote:I am so glad I don't have to use internet mail services. The spam I get would choke the account in no time flat. And I only mean the spam I see. I have filters and rules set up and still half of it leaks through. I'l lhave to revise them. Again.
My personal favorite? if my account name doesn't appear in the To or CC line, delete it. This does mean setting up rules for mail lists, but that's no big deal. I've got a couple others, but that one traps most of my spam.
I've had the same webmail address for close to four years and get one or two bits of spam in my inbox a week. Oh, and I'd also recommend turning off image display when reading spam. Some of them do address validation using image loads. Simply opening the mail is the same as sending a "Unsubscribe Me" email verification.
I use Hotmail and haven't found too many problems with it. I've heard plenty of people say they signed up with an account, never gave it out, and still got spam, but the address I set up for our small webcomic hasn't had any spam in the three or four weeks I've had it running, and there's a link right on the main page. *shrug* The other does get spam, but the filter does an okay job of keeping out the porn (if not the offers for college degrees and lowered mortgage payments) and I don't get that much spam on that one either.
I've been enlisted to plug a webcomic called Strawberry Tokyo Girls (though it has nothing to do with strawberries and isn't set in Tokyo) because I color it, and the artist/writer doesn't have a net connection. So. Visit http://strawberry.keenspace.com so I can tell the artist I'm doing my job.
