Wow why are you having so many issues with Spam on hotmail.

Like 4 years ago I decided to only allow emails from people on my safe list and everything else staight to junk mail and i have no issues at all.

I have noticed a reduction in the junk mail folder recently but it was never that bad to begin with maybe 10-15 emails a day if that sometimes.

If you leave your inbox unfiltered then you should expect to get raped by spam.

Just checked our GFI logs, and yup, from an average of ~24,000 a day to about 10,500 a day. And I just thought my boss was really staying on top of cleaning out the spam folders!

I have lots of spam in my gmail account... but 99.99% of it gets filtered so i just have to click delete all spam every time i check my email.

Also an easy way to reduce spam is to disable your email account for a few days and then enable it again. Some spammers will remove your email address from their list when they get a does not exist error. Yahoo and probably gmail lets you do this at will and risk free (you can re-activate whenever)

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No significant difference.

BTW, if you've been getting spam texts or email to your cell phone, there's a complaint form here
http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm?sid=d1e408&id=d1e456

(Since the messages generally have an 888 number there is, in theory at least, a way to trace them back to the originator)

I don't have a lot of faith in the FCC tracking these guys down (one WashPost blogger seems to accomplish more than that entire organization) but who knows.

Dropped from about 25 spams per day to about 10. Spammers should be shot.

I'm down over the month. At one point I was getting about 1100 spam a month, and am down to about 400ish.

Love the gmail filter!

I've noticed a huge drop in spam on my POP3 address. I'd get about 150 spam messages a day. Now it's probably less than 20. It's been nice not having to delete massive amounts of spam daily.

I get more spam.

my email spam messages had gone up but recently have gone down so kudos to shutting down the servers.

The amount of spam I'm getting is way down these days.

Surprisingly, my hotmail and msn accounts haven't recieved spam in years. Actually, they've recieved NO spam in years, all the while recieving all my legitimate email just perfectly. I realize I'm probably an exception here to what many TR'ers have as stories.

Now, my school email? Spam-reffic.

No problems on gmail, they have very effective spam filtering technique than the rest.

actually, the spam content on Hotmail has absolutely erupted for me. I went from manageable to 60 per day over the course of a week, and that's about where I hang out today.

More on operamail

So little spam comes in to my main inbox I haven't noticed. I guess Yahoo's spam filtering works well enough.

I think mine went down by about about half in the day or so after I first read about this. Since then it's gone back up to normal levels if not gotten worse.

Expect the spam to go up again. They got online and moved the botnet control servers.

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/11/18/219204.shtml

I wonder why no one (edit: at the ISPs) was paying attention to these things before. You'd think 10 billion emails per day is something that shouldn't take the Washington Post to point out to an ISP.

Death, Taxes and Spam.

But the spam is really decreased in my mailbox!

Surprisingly, The spam that my Inbox receives has been increasing steadily..

My work email gets almost none.

My personal ones have been pretty steady 10-30 per day, so I can't say that I have really noticed any reduction.

I noticed that my spam folder on Yahoo shrunk from four digits to three. However, I am getting more cell spam from biz@msn.com. Looks like a bot to me. I wish T-Mobile had better spam filters for their texting system...and better signal and coverage.

I've gotten a lot less spam at my work address since that ISP went down. It used to be around 70-100 spam emails per day, but the past few days it's been 30-40 per day, if that. I don't know if it has affected how much spam I get on my personal (Gmail) account, because the daily spam on that one varies, but is usually 10-20 per day, which hasn't changed much.

I suppose ~65 is a reduction from ~75 a day.

Big drop for me, look at my reply:

My spam went quite a bit down. I guess that explains it.

I'm glad people are doing something about it. Better late than never.

I still get the same amount of spam. I have an email account for bills and contacting people and one for website registry accounts. The one for websites is the big time spam collector. and has about 1000+ of inbox and bulk put together in 1.5 years. No sign of slow down as i just checked.

It hasn't changed for me at all. Same spam, different day. And I don't know where they get my addresses from, I've never advertised them anywhere.

Thank you.