Spams…who loves it? Somehow the SpamAssassin (the most popular mail filtering software) on my office’s email account has stopped working. I’ve been in a honeymoon so far without any spam coming to my inbox. Well there was still a few that got through, but not this many ever!
This reminds me of my Hotmail account. I have so many spam there that make me enable all kind of filtering. I regretted ever creating a Hotmail account, but alas, that was my first email address that I registered back in 1996 
(that was the time when I came to Australia for studying).
I just can’t believe these spam some times. Some of the subjects are like this:
“Hi michael.aulia, watch yourself naked”
Or
“Your face looks so stupid here”
This makes me wonder.. Why would I want to see a video of myself naked or when I look stupid? These spammers need to get smarter if they want people to click and send their viruses and Trojans across!
Have you got lots of spam on your email account? If you have your own domain, do you know that you can turn on SpamAsasssin on your cPanel account?
At the moment, I’m quite happy with the spam filtering on my email account. However, I usually use my Gmail on every web registration or forums. Never give your main email account away to strangers!
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yup , spam can get nasty .. the good thing in spam assassin is that it’s free and usable .
the bad thing is that you need your OWN e-mail to set it up
I’ve used
http://www.bluecirclet.com/index.php/blog/2008/05/vade-retro-antispam-outlook
just before i turn to opera ..
and opera has powerful spam killer plus my mail provider has anti-spam mechanism and my ISP offer spam Filtering
I’m all loved
ameos last blog post..launchy .. forget about your start-menu
My problem with spam these days is caused by a relay problem. I don’t have an open relay, but I’m using 25 for SMTP and one day I had 500 bounced (fake) mails. The problem is that for some reason I can’t receive emails if I change my SMTP port…
I have a Hotmail account and I don’t get that much spam
5/day top I think.
Alfonsos last blog post..Lord Of War
Spammers are always there online trying to spam in any way they can, to get into your email.
it is better to use what they call a “disposable email address” and use this in signing up on some services that you don’t ready need to bother reading mail from their subscription.
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To avoid the internet scams and to evaluate them is a big task. Here is the giude on how to evaluate potential Scams – How to evaluate potential scams
Also, to avoid Email Spams, these tips would be very helpful – Top Tips to avoid Email SPAM
SPAM Assassin did do a pretty good job, but at some point, I decided to move my mail server to Google and since then, I’ve worried a lot less about SPAM. Now I worry about the wrong emails getting marked!
Marias last blog post..“Rehab” – Rihanna
Well I guess no matter what we do, there will always be SPAM emails
I wonder if there are people who actually read and benefited from those viagra and enlargement thingies spams
@Maria: Yeah I remember an important email went to my Junk and luckily somehow I had the urge to check it