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amamommy
Citizen
Username: Amamommy
Post Number: 29
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 6:43 am: |     |
I have Comcast cable and my email Spam is getting worse and worse. I tried setting my filter on but it's not helping. I get the weirdest titles...some like:
Soak Store undo prophesize
Libido is mirrored calibrate
ETC.
I got a new email address, it started getting loaded down too.
I can continue to delete them but for whatever reason it really bugs me! |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11801
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 7:10 am: | |
Don't use comcast. Use gmail. They have the best spam protection I have ever seen. Send me an email at noglider@gmail.com if you want an invitation to gmail. You can't just go to the web site and sign up.
Even if comcast spam protection were good, I wouldn't use it, because I don't like my email address tied to my ISP. My ISP can change, but I don't want my email address to change.
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11802
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 7:13 am: | |
Those weird titles are to thwart spam filters. Spam filters look for keywords that are likely to be spam. The weirder the title, the harder the mail is to flag. But titles are not the only clue.
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mtierney
Citizen
Username: Mtierney
Post Number: 892
Registered: 3-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 7, 2006 - 11:54 am: | |
I must report 5 to 10 letters a day "as spam" to Comcast! The subject lines seem highly suggestive as porn potential. I don't even peek, however, to see what they're all about!
This to me is so much unnecessary cleanup before I get to my real email. Very annoying! I really hate going to the fuss of changing addresses or ISP.
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11821
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 7, 2006 - 1:04 pm: | |
But changing would be an investment, because you wouldn't have to spend that time daily, sifting through the chaff. And I think it's useless to report spam. No one does anything about it, because no one can.
And I think comcast doesn't care anyway. If they cared, I wouldn't be receiving any mail to the address I have never given to anyone and have never sent mail from.
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monster
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 1837
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, January 7, 2006 - 3:31 pm: | |
I hardly see any spam from comcast, if you log into your mail via webmail, you can turn on spam filters, I also have set rules in my mail program that have been working pretty good. Most spam I get gets deleted before I ever see it. |
Bailey
Citizen
Username: Baileymac
Post Number: 135
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, January 7, 2006 - 3:46 pm: | |
I used to get a huge amount of spam from my verizon account, switched from DSL to cable a year ago.
I've only had a few spam emails to my optonline.net address in the last year, but I don't use that address much.
I use a gmail address when I need to give an address to some site on the web - and I don't think I've ever gotten any spam at that address.
I think Tom is right - get a gmail address. It's free, they give you lots of storage space, and you can use it as long as Google is around (quite a while longer, I'm sure). |
amamommy
Citizen
Username: Amamommy
Post Number: 30
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:28 pm: | |
Thanks everyone, and thanks Tom, I've been using gmail and I really like it. very cool, you are a helpful guy.
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