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Hotmail: A Spammer's Paradise? | |
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| Time: 02:38 EST/07:38 GMT | News Source: Wired | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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If so many spam offers weren't totally bogus, Hotmail users would be incredibly well-endowed, slim people with plenty of hair who make big money working at home when they aren't having great sex provoked by free porn and herbal Viagra. Many users of the free e-mail service offered by Microsoft's MSN.com say that within a day of creating a new Hotmail account the spam starts flowing in, almost as if spammers have sunk a tap directly into Hotmail's user database and are slurping up a free-flowing torrent of e-mail addresses. | ||
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| #1 By 2138 (62.201.74.162) at 1/10/2003 3:29:54 AM |
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the main culprit is M$. you cannot even block msn promotions in msn8.
belto... |
| #2 By 2201 (194.205.219.2) at 1/10/2003 5:17:29 AM |
| #2 Exclusive filtering with Safe List doesn't stop you getting spam AT ALL. All it will do is send any mail that's not on your safe list to the Junk Mail folder. So it doesn't actually solve the problem. |
| #3 By 1845 (12.209.152.69) at 1/10/2003 9:49:19 AM |
| Ah, once again the typically bitter belto... |
| #4 By 3653 (63.162.177.140) at 1/10/2003 9:53:46 AM |
| testman, that doensn't make any sense. Spam folder is as good (better perhaps, if it auto-dumps in X days) as the deleted folder. |
| #5 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 1/10/2003 10:56:32 AM |
| Testman, you can change the settings so that filtered mail will be immediately deleted. |
| #6 By 37 (66.82.20.150) at 1/10/2003 11:08:43 AM |
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#1 belto: Actually, the main culprit is not Microsoft, but it's spam generators. Microsoft doesn't sell your address to 3rd parties. You might want to do some more research before spewing false information.
#3 Testman: Yes, Exclusive filter with Safe list **DOES** stop you from getting spam. And if you knew how to properly set up your filter in hotmail, Hotmail will NOT put that spam in your junk mail. Do some research in the options panel of Hotmail my friend. RESEARCH #4 NeoNinoo: Yes, it is practical. I have added ALL of my friends different email addresses to my safelist/contacts. And everytime I send an email to someone that is not in my contacts, Hotmail asks me if I want to add that address to my contacts so that it will allow incoming mail from them. #8 Boola: You are 100% correct. In fact, I recommend that you set up email addresses similar to this: kv_8lh_eim@hotmail.com. Underscores and such will help avoid spam generators from generatiing your address. BTW, Hotmail is free :-) |
| #7 By 10786 (195.24.44.116) at 1/10/2003 12:10:51 PM |
| The more addresses you block, the more spam you get. The only solution is the exclusive filter; however, it is not quite convenient. But you get used to it the same way you get used to Outlook blocking *exe, etc. files. |
| #8 By 7390 (63.211.44.114) at 1/10/2003 12:24:40 PM |
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Why are we blaming MS for societal problems? Spammers target the largest user base and clearly hotmail has a size number. Sure they could implement more spam control stuff but I think that we need to go to the source of the problem -THE SPAMMERS.
Here is a cool tool, MS should implement a community blocked list. It would be something that you can opt in or out of. Basically it would block mail from an address/domain that appears on a percentage (TBD) of people that participate list. So if X percentage blocks mail from penis_enlargement@hotmail.com then the other participating members won't get mail from that address either. |
| #9 By 13783 (208.61.181.67) at 1/10/2003 6:19:47 PM |
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I get ZERO spam I repeat ZERO spam on my HotMail inbox and I do NOT even use the junk mail filters of the service at all, I dont get Spam in NONE of my e-mail addresses, want to know the answer ? go to:
http://www.choicemailone.com That's the BEST ANTI SPAM TOOL EVER ! I know this sounds too good to be true, but guess what! It IS true, this is %100 effective, NO SPAM once you start using it, Try it out you WON'T regret it. Ely This post was edited by Ely on Friday, January 10, 2003 at 18:22. |
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