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Xeruss
Posted on 10-02-08 05:48 AM Link | Quote | ID: 91530


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Drugsxxors?
See? A good email provider would block this.

So, who what makes a better email provider?

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NightKev
Posted on 10-02-08 05:49 AM Link | Quote | ID: 91531


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Google/GMail.

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GreyMaria
Posted on 10-02-08 05:50 AM Link | Quote | ID: 91532

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One button fixes that.

"Spam"

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Xeruss
Posted on 10-02-08 05:52 AM Link | Quote | ID: 91533


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You'd think so, but it comes at me from every direction.


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Sukasa
Posted on 10-02-08 09:05 PM Link | Quote | ID: 91570


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Last view: 3230 days 		Oddly enough, Hotmail can block just about every single spam message that comes my way, except for Viagra stuff.

RT-55J
Posted on 10-02-08 09:06 PM Link | Quote | ID: 91571

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blackhole89
Posted on 10-02-08 09:08 PM Link | Quote | ID: 91572


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RT-55J drank the kool-aid, it seems...

Sukasa: Interpret it as Hotmail telling you you actually need it and sue for millions.

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chungy
Posted on 10-02-08 10:10 PM Link | Quote | ID: 91575


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Posted by Sukasa
Oddly enough, Hotmail can block just about every single spam message that comes my way, except for Viagra stuff.

My mom always complains that hotmail doesn't catch anything, heh.

I use Gmail and their spam detection seems pretty good. Occasionally get false positives; but the real annoyance are false negatives, which are less often but happen.

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Posted on 10-02-08 10:22 PM Link | Quote | ID: 91579


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KP9000
Posted on 10-03-08 01:20 AM Link | Quote | ID: 91594


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I have had my current main e-mail address for as long as yahoo has been online. I don't get shit like that because I know what to watch out for and understand most methods for spammers to acquire your e-mail address.

For example: Chain letters. You family sees something that's "cute" or "religiously powerful" and is directed to send it to (n) other people so something good will happen to them... Well, when you forward an e-mail, everyone you're forwarding to also includes their e-mail address in it, and when it finally circulates back to the spammer (somehow) they have this giant list of e-mail addresses they can spam to.

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Glitschen
Posted on 10-03-08 10:29 AM Link | Quote | ID: 91635

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Also, Gmail.

Xeruss
Posted on 10-04-08 08:57 AM Link | Quote | ID: 91676


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So, a not-entirely-related story here, but today at my school, our teacher was showing us a powerpoint via projector, on the history of Judaism or something like that. Well, midway through, a pop-up showed him he had received an email.

Its subject was "Urgent: Get help for men with ED now!" XD

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Levesque
Posted on 10-04-08 08:37 PM Link | Quote | ID: 91698


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NightKev
Posted on 10-05-08 12:14 AM Link | Quote | ID: 91716


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Posted by chungy
I use Gmail and their spam detection seems pretty good. Occasionally get false positives; but the real annoyance are false negatives, which are less often but happen.
I've been using gmail for a couple of years now, and there hasn't been a single false negative yet, and only 1 or 2 false positives ever. So yeah, I'd say Gmail knows what it's doing.

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James Freeman
Posted on 10-20-08 10:08 PM Link | Quote | ID: 92590


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Posted by NightKev
Google/GMail.

QFT

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DSGatling
Posted on 10-21-08 02:36 AM Link | Quote | ID: 92606


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lol blank cell
Gmail isn't that great. It blocks the obvious spam, but even when I mark something to be blocked as spam, I still get emails from that email. I've had the least problems with Hotmail, though it has tendency to mark emails that you get as a subscription and ignore as spam sometimes. At least it'll block what it's told to block.

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Komaru
Posted on 10-22-08 12:12 AM Link | Quote | ID: 92660


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I have had absolutely no problems with gmail at all, but its probably because anytime I need to just give out my email to some random person, I use my yahoo email, and my gmail I use for my friends ad stuff. Then my gmail gets no spam, and the yahoo gets it all. With the yahoo, it marks every email on a mailing list as spam for me, though. I hate it. It even does it when I mark it not spam. That bugs me a lot.

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KP9000
Posted on 10-22-08 12:33 AM Link | Quote | ID: 92663


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I only stick with Yahoo mail because it's the one and only email i've had (besides a dummy account, also yahoo mail) since the beginning of my internet carreeerrerr.

It's a lot easier to just stick with the same one because then I'd have to re-seed my e-mail to all of my contacts, whis is a real pain in the ass. Especially when you've had the same e-mail forever.

I'd be more open to it if I had been getting spam up the ass. I only really get one a month, realistically. My dummy account gets up to 40,000 a day though... it's a shitload.

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boingboingsplat
Posted on 10-22-08 03:34 AM Link | Quote | ID: 92670


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Oddly enough, I've never gotten a single spam email ever.
Granted its not like I stick my email up all over the place.

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Ailure
Posted on 10-23-08 05:08 AM Link | Quote | ID: 92696

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Posted by KP9001
For example: Chain letters. You family sees something that's "cute" or "religiously powerful" and is directed to send it to (n) other people so something good will happen to them... Well, when you forward an e-mail, everyone you're forwarding to also includes their e-mail address in it, and when it finally circulates back to the spammer (somehow) they have this giant list of e-mail addresses they can spam to.
That's when you resend the letter back to them, telling how idiotic they are for sending it in first place (usually they contain stupid false urban legends) and why it's bad idea to send chain letters.

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