I just checked my email for the first time in two days. Out of 67 new messages, 65 were pure spam. That's 97% junk mail! Annoying.

So,
1) Post your worst spam experiences
2) Post your ways of dealing with email spam



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The Massassi-Map
There is no spoon.

Just be glad you dont have a Massassi.net address. They get about one spam email every five minutes or less. When I wake up in the morning and check it, theres usually about 100-150 spam emails in the inbox.

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My hotmail account of 3 years has never gotten one spam mail.
My regular account gets no spam either.
I have never had a problem with spam.
I've gotten a couple of spam e-mails but nothing that was on going.

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To artificial life, all reality is virtual.
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babble, babble, b!tch, b!tch, rebel, rebel, party, party.

I've had my Hotmail account for 5 years. Since I've never used email to communicate (sometimes, once a year) I get nothing but spam. I don't care because I don't expect people to email me, and when they do I usually don't see it. I get about 100 spam messages a week.

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[="Mothers stop cooking take off your aprons; Fathers stop looking at every sports station; Take a second, and think of every poor nation." - Nas=]

Massassian since: March 12, 2001

i used to get a lot of spam on my old hotmail address, but my new one doesn't get hardly any

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*landfish 'splodes*
7 of 14

I get around 15-20 spam emails a day, and most of them are from the same source. :\

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Do you have stairs in your house?

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Run Away!!

Some son of a ***** spammer was using my email address to systematically email spam to every address on AOL. I only know because I was getting the rejects. ALL of the rejects.

Its funny, I dont get that much spam anymore. Seriously, barely any. I htink I may have gotten maybe 5 in the past year. And Im not careful with my email address, either. I think my ISP might be filtering out all my spam!

I used to get tonnes when I was on AOL. TONNES. On the order of 50 emails a day...

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I used to believe that we must fight the future, lest change come without our consent. I was wrong. The truth is that we must embrace the future, for only with change can we remain the same.

They're not very tactful, are they?

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I received a spam e-mail the other day from a "Dracula M. Pourhouse." Quite amusing.

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"I am downright amazed at what I can destroy with just a hammer."
-Atom and His Package

[This message has been edited by Wuss (edited April 18, 2004).]

The only way I've avoided getting spam is by using 1 e-mail address for all my signing up for things and such, and one that I use -ONLY- for MSN messenger and e-mails from my friends. The other gets 0 spam e-mails to the inbox, but about 20/day in the junk mail box

I pipe all my incoming messages through spamassassin and bogofilter. That takes enough care of most of them.

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Sorry for the lousy English

"Hardly gets any"

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Flibbledy-dibbledy! Nyaaaaaaaahhh!

-The Last True Evil

I seem to get a lot of e-mails from people trying to sell me viagra and other sex drugs. Others from online dating services, others whose topic line reads "Make her beg for it." Yeah, I'm not opening any of those.

The majority of sites that say "we will not give your e-mail to 3rd-party sites" are lying.

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- Proverbs 27:17
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i get ~300 per day on my yahoo account. none at my roadrunner address

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I don't get spam... my firewalls delete it before I even see whats in my inbox... I love Zone Alarm Pro.

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Don't be unwise judge me not by my size. You wont believe your eyes watch the xwing rise!

I seem to get spam in waves.. a few hundred within a week and then it stops.

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When bread becomes toast, it can never go back to being bread again.

My uni one is starting to get a bit of spam lately, but the uni is implementing some new fangdangled spam filter which should take care of it.

Although lately I have received a few e-mails from techno-phobes complaining about me sending them viruses. Someone with my e-mail address has been infected with the Netsky worm and so people are e-mailing me back asking me who I am and why am I giving them viruses. One guy was rather abusive and came out with a "I know who you ****ing are so stop it!!" which I found freaking hilarious.

So I wrote back an e-mail explaining about e-mail worms and a few days later I got a nice little apology.

[edit]spheling erars

[This message has been edited by Run (edited April 18, 2004).]

I only get about two-three spams a week. Yay for me!

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Kids must be shot by Monday.

Honesty tests for workers can't be trusted, report says.

Psychopaths are unpredictable.

Jay Leno's Headlines > Everything

I got 1500 spam messages once from some porno site.

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I can't think of anything to put here right now.

Could you . . . umm . . foreward those to me?

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I used to believe that we must fight the future, lest change come without our consent. I was wrong. The truth is that we must embrace the future, for only with change can we remain the same.

luckily my hotmail account has been pretty clean (my AOL inbox is anoutehr matter entirely. damn ****py spam filters), but the biggest part of spam that i get in there is from colleges, and i'm being completely serious. Hotmail sends most of it to the junk folder now. It's rahter sad when they have to resort to spam to get people to apply.

[Edit] Um.. i think i cheated the censor there...

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[This message has been edited by Noble Outlaw (edited April 18, 2004).]

If Internet Spam was real Spam, we could feed the hungary. Poor, starving people would be happy (and laxative companies as well.)

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Snail racing: (500 posts per line)

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[This message has been edited by Echoman (edited April 18, 2004).]

Spam isn't that bad, it's like poor mans hash...because it has no potatoes

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Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!

cool, you got all my messages.

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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

<3 Mozilla thunderbird.

Best. Spam. Filter. *ever*.


it r0x0rs Outlook express' b0x0rs.

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*so original*

i dont think outlook express HAS a spam filter, does it?

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