How much spam do you get?

Hello DP junkies!

How much spam do you receive daily?

I get only few bad messages every day, I'm using Yahoo! antispam service that allows to block addresses and domains which can send you spam..

 

I use sneakemail.com whenever I am asked for my email address, it generates an unique email address for you and then if you get spam you can just delete email address from your account.

 

a company that I do consulting for stated that 60% of email traffic in was spam. The company has outsources the spam filtering with great success.

They now see about 300K REAL emails a day. You can see the logistical problems that spam was creating for the network.

 

I get about five or six per day.

 

At my old job as a receptionist, I had to go through the emails every morning - and I would spend at least an hour trying to sift through them to see which ones were real and which ones were spam.

I've never been so pissed off in my life than I was in the first hours of every weekday morning. (Aside from the dumbass drivers I encountered each time on my way to work - my throat was usually sore by the time I got there cause I was yelling at everyone).

At home, I only get about 5 - 10 a day and I've had this address for about 2 years now. I don't have my spam filter turned on.

 

All of my accounts together it ranges from low hundreds to thousands a day

 

A couple a day sometimes.

I try to keep some accounts clean by only using them for specific purposes.

Avoiding spam isn't a really hard thing to do if you just keep in mind where you give out your email.
Use various accounts and the accounts where you really don't want to see any spam are spam free

 

Thanks for replies and votes.
I think now, I should have added another option, like over 100.
It seems like some DP members are heavily spammed

 

I actually did get quite a lot at one point, but I unsubscribed with the links on the bottom of each email and that seemed to work - even though I was told not to do that.

The ones I do get now don't have unsubscribe links (and I'm sure it's from my darling husband surfing around sites he shouldn't be while I'm away).

 

WOW how do handle so much spam? Don't you use any filters?

 

To a degree, most of my spam comes from spoofs to the domain name though not to a particular user account. Domains that have never even had an email address used can get hit with a few dozen spam a day.

Most of the spam goes into my inbox, good mail seperated out from there. Other spam goes to domains that don't even have a true email setup, I simply clear those mail folders once and awhile. I don't use filters out of fear of losing even one customer email, would rather deal with the spam than risk a furious customer.

 

Between work and home I used to get 500+ a day - I did have my Email address out in a few places on the web (no more) and switched to PHP mailers on all my sites - this and what I can only guess is my ISP introducing some sort of spam filtering has seen the amount drop to nearly single figures.

My work account however has me on several public facing lists, so I get a large amount of spam through that. However - like most of my colleagues we (against company policy) did our own installs of the excellent SpamBayes plugin for outlook, which does an excellent job of sorting the spam - its a lot more managable. The company tried to get us using messagelabs, but it was so clunky (sign in, check 10 a page through web interface) that most of us disabled that as well.

I'd say at present its about 150 a day.

 

On a typical day--my personal email gets about 300 spams---
Work is about 10-15 spams-mainly from directory submissions here.

 

hrblcantra wrote:

Do you mean by this that people will guess email account names from the domain. For instance, website domain is mydomain.com so let's try

And because of this still recieving spam?
Not saying this as an counter attack or something but just curious

 

The spam account i use to register everywhere gets around 500 every day. If you add up all the junk from my other accounts (around 20) you will get another 300 or so.

 

Yes it could be of which gets funneled back to the default account in the domain name. I could set these unused accounts up to be a blackhole for email, sites that I do use email for though I do not wish to have it this way as customers are good at not entering email addresses correctly. Comes back again to a case do I want no spam versus possibly pissing a customer off.

I should also note that this amount of spam comes from well over 100 domain names that actively recieve spam, even if they have not ever had an email address used.

 

I didn't even take into account my spam accounts, tack on at least a few hundred more on those. I never check them so in all reality have no clue.

 

I had a similar problem too.
Some spammer was sending me dosens of emails to , I just deleted the address in my hosting server. I use the default to not catch all the mails to sent to the domain.. it may help

 

Hmm. i see...Thanks.

 

Ditto - Now all my domains and subdomains have any unrouted mail sent to :blackhole: - and an email form for contact. It works a treat.