How Much SPAM do you get a day?

**Sublime Jedi** · April 12th, 2004, 09:29 PM

Just curious.

How many spam emails (on average) do you get a day.

Does your ISP/Host provide a filtering service? Does your company use an email filter?

Give me some feedback...working on a project for my boss...

Thanks!

**The Punisher** · April 12th, 2004, 09:31 PM

Not much actually, I after good settings to control that and block it in zonealarm I think called "web filtering"

**The Real Bingo** · April 12th, 2004, 09:34 PM

0 Thats Mozilla for ya.

**Sublime Jedi** · April 12th, 2004, 09:37 PM

Originally posted by The Real Bingo
0 Thats Mozilla for ya.

Impressive.

**BITM@D** · April 12th, 2004, 10:08 PM

100-200 a day.

Mostly variations on usernames for every domain I own. It was interesting to see the 'christian name' wave doing the rounds. They sent emails to every known christian name @oneofmydomains.com. It was funny. I've given up on getting too upset about spam. 'Delete' isn't that much of a hassle really.

How does Mozilla stop spam? I'm classing spam as email sent your address when you didn't ask for it. You're zero spam count sounds like a factor of your being careful about where you use (or give) your email address which is still a pretty neet trick.

**samwichse** · April 12th, 2004, 10:32 PM

I get 0 in my primary mailbox, and that's without any filtering whatsoever.

My "sign up for stuff" box gets 7 spams per day.

My girlfriend gets about 30 per day in her hotmail box (mostly penis enlargement).

Sam

**rrcn** · April 12th, 2004, 10:52 PM

I get about 1 every two weeks in my aol e-mail and about 2-3 a week in my hotmail account.

**The_Shooter** · April 12th, 2004, 11:01 PM

I get about 1 spam email a week. That includes my junkmail.

**cysus** · April 12th, 2004, 11:13 PM

If any one needs to give an email acount but knows they're going to just get spam (or just wants to have fun) give them superspamman@satx.rr.com , its my spam acount. It gets over one thousand messages a day. I'm shooting for a million a day.

**electric** · April 12th, 2004, 11:16 PM

i get maybe get one or two e-mails from an e bay group that
i registrar to now its a pain ,even when you tell them to stop
they keep senting them, oh well

**Christian-Comp** · April 12th, 2004, 11:33 PM

Originally posted by BITM@D
It was interesting to see the 'christian name' wave doing the rounds. They sent emails to every known christian name @oneofmydomains.com. It was funny. I've given up on getting too upset about spam. 'Delete' isn't that much of a hassle really.

I've been getting some from "christian" type as well. Most recently, a christian website was attacked and the "emails" were apparantly sent from the christian website I own. The owner of that website personally emailed me about the issue. Yesterday I got 15 spams (that I normally don't get) and 12 had virii/worms in it. I'm just glad I use a web-based (not hotmail or yahoo) email that let's me do things that outlook and OE do not. After the 15 yesterday and 8 today, its quieting down some there. Of course my other emails still get bombarded. Of course, those mentioned above were not the usual spams I get.

**ShawnD1** · April 13th, 2004, 01:47 AM

My account for newsgroups and forums gets 0.
My account for BS stuff gets about 1 per week.
Hotmail account gets 0.
ISP account gets about 200 per day.

You only get spam if you sign up for it.

**Tazzin** · April 13th, 2004, 02:31 AM

I get maybe 3 a day in my main email box.. I am using Outlook / POP3 from netzero. I just setup rules in Outlook to send them directly to the trash when its received. When I close Outlook it deletes them all.

**brandon184** · April 13th, 2004, 03:53 AM

My work email gets absolutely none... I'm not aware of any type of significant filtering done, but I'm extremely exclusive with who I give that address to.

I have my MSN/Hotmail setup to only recieve messages from my contacts - the Junk email folder probably gets about 10 new (spam) messages per day.

ISP email that I've used for years (but don't use anymore) probably gets about 50 per day... but I was pretty lax with who/what I fed that email address to in the past.

I use Outlook 2003 at work and Mozilla Thunderbird at home.

Brandon

**JohnE.** · April 13th, 2004, 04:39 AM

0 in my Microsoft Outlook inbox, without any filtering by me or my ISP. About 30 every three to four days in my Hotmail account.

**OuTpaTienT** · April 13th, 2004, 05:31 AM

Spam email that I get in my inbox daily: 0 - 5 (often 0)

Spam that gets filtered and never reaches my inbox daily: 100 - 300 (thanks Yahoo)

**jmichna** · April 13th, 2004, 02:33 PM

At work (Lotus Notes) overnight 100-200; over weekend 300-450.
At home (POP3 mail client, OE, SBC/Yahoo) fewer than 10 (use SpamPal (freeware) as filter).

**DoctorReno** · April 13th, 2004, 02:38 PM

I was getting up to 200/day in my primary email account. I finally set my filters to only allow emails from addresses in my address book. Now some spammers have figured out how to get around that.

**omalleytrading** · April 13th, 2004, 03:30 PM

Boy, you folks have it easy.

My public (work) e-mail easily gets 300 - 400 spam message every day.

I now use SpamBayes to keep it sorted out, but it's still a hastle to scan through the spam folder looking for a false possitive.

Spammers should be burned at the stake.

**Starfury_2260** · April 13th, 2004, 05:48 PM

Seems to me the main way you end up with a ton of spam is not unchecking things on sites that say "sign me up for 3rd party offers" and stuff like that.
I get 0-1 spams a week. I've only gotten like 2 of those virus or whatever emails acting like a failed email being returned, and I've never gotten any other emails like that. Of course Hotmail completely blocks opening the attachment in that email.