SPAM – Still As Annoying As Ever!
Posted by macbros | Under Internet, My Opinion | 176 views Tuesday Nov 3, 2009SPAM! I’m pretty sure it is safe to say that everybody HATES this tripe we see filling up our in-boxes all the time. I know I feel like the guy in the above animation a lot of the time.
It’s getting so bad to the point that it is drowning our real e-mail and burying it so much that we are missing them and deleting them by mistake while we select large blocks at a time and sending them off to oblivion.
It’s getting so bad that even the spam boxes are sometime catching legitimate e-mails because these assholes that spam us so much are using common wording or something that the filters have a hard time figuring out who’s real and who isn’t.
Even my main e-mail address, that I use for friends and family only, has started to get bombarded by spam. I can attribute that simply to the fact that not a lot of friends and family know how to send bulk e-mails without adding every single one of their contacts in the TO: Field, but instead use the BCC: to add all the recipients. I’ve mentioned THIS in the PAST before. Seems it went unheard though. Besides when you use the BCC, it appears more personal to the people you send it to because it just shows their e-mail address. But when you put all the contacts in the TO: Field, every – single – e-mail – address shows up in every single e-mail received by the contacts. All it takes is just ONE person to have a Trojan that sniffs out e-mail address when they receive them, resulting in all the e-mail address exposed and added to the SPAM-LIST-OF-DOOM!!! *I actually animated that in my mind. it sounded a lot better*
Anyway. I’ve been noticing a lot of very, VERY important e-mails in my spam folder. E-mails from Jobs that I’ve applied to, bank information pertaining to statements, PayPal payment notifications. Shit that I NEED to know about ASAP!
Lately I’ve been going into my SPAM folder and cutting through the fodder to see if I have any REAL E-mail in there. But even then it would be easy to miss something because there is just so much of it. Kinda defeats the whole purpose of having a spam folder when you have to sort through it all the time anyway.
There are so many companies and services offering their ultimate way to defeat spam for you, but there is so much of this shit that even the best spam filter is no match against it.
Wouldn’t is be nice to just be able to click on a Spam button that would send it to an official legal department that took all the information from the sent e-mail spam and tracked it down to the originating sender and then throw their annoying asses into prison for wasting thousands of hours of peoples lives. Our time is money is it not?
Grrr. SPAM! I hate it!
*//end rant//
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I know what you mean. That’s why I’ve been using Gmail to filter my spam. Its got the best results that I’ve seen. I filter my domain email through it and my Gmail account too, so the mail from both addresses are being filtered together. It just works. I can’t say that about any other service that I’ve used (and I’ve tried most of the more popular free email providers).
I’ve only had about 5 false positives since 2005. I’ve had less real spam get into my inbox.
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I’ve actually been using g-mail to filter my e-mails too, but I had to stop when I found out a lot of important e-mails weren’t being delivered at all. Some senders I deal with apparently got Blacklisted. Rogers, and Hostmonster were blacklisted twice and I had to go through hell to get them unlisted. I just dropped G-mail altogether.
Like I said, there’s so much spam even the legit ones are getting flagged to much because spam these days looks so real.
I’ve been using my domain lately to start using the name of the company as my registration company. Example would be digg[*atsign*]macbrosplace.com for my Digg membership or mochaid[*atsign*]macbrosplace.com that monitors my flash animations to see who steals them. So if I get spam to any of those addresses, I know who gave it out.
I’ll be dropping a lot of e-mails soon. Then will have to deal with updating all my contacts to let them know what e-mail they can use.
you’ll never get all spam blocked. we have two dedicated servers that do nothing but monitor incoming and outgoing, running top of the line software, and it still gets thru here. mind you each one of our email addresses are hit with thousands of spams a day, but once every month or two a couple will get thru.
Uhh Yeah: Exactly my point. There’s so much of it that we’re at it’s mercy.