Lainey

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Do you have a setting that can "trash" the stuff automatically after "X" days?

I set mine to seven, and glance at the junk folder now and again, just in case something isn't really "junk."

ralper

Actually they do very well. If they manage to sell to 1/2 of 1 percent of all of the people that they send the e-mails to, they make money big time. Be assured if they weren't making money the spam e-mails would stop.

JonasM

And it costs pennies per million emails. Why not spam all of the users on the internet? Twice. In alphabetical order.

JonasM

ralper

I probably get about 100 spam e-mails a day both at home and at work. I find that Microsoft Office Outlook 2007's junk filter works reasonably well. Not perfect, but pretty good.

I find that spam goes in cycles. Something becomes hot and I get an awful lot of e-mails about it. Often I'll get exactly the same e-mail from 4 or 5 different addresses at the same time. When that item dies and another one becomes hot the cycle repeats itself.

The funny spam e-mails that I'm getting lately are from someone pretending to be citizens bank. The first batch, a few weeks ago, were fraudulent e-mails warning me to take action to register my account. This week I'm getting a lot of fraudulent e-mails warning me to take action to protect myself from the fraudulent actions of the first set of e-mails.

I get a lot of Canadian medicines, penny stocks, and Hot Russian Girls Who want to Meet You. I don't get any Hot Asian Chics anymore or too many Viagra e-mails.

I think you'll find that many websites, perhaps even S2KI, think nothing of selling e-mail addresses and of allowing cookies to be put on your computer.

Yflyer

The real SPAM vs. unsolicited commercial e-mail - spam.

and Hormel's Intellectual Property Statement

Morris

I read the other day that spam increases near the end of the year. That could be a contributor.
We just got a new home email address in March and so far (knock on wood) we only get one or two a week. Except our new ISP could be filtering out the worst of the bunch. Now at work, I am buried.....

martha

I understand the economies of scale and not needing to attract many customers from their massive mailings -- I just don't understand how they get even one sale from this trash. Who would buy this stuff or invest based upon an e-mail from someone they've never heard of? Are there really that many stupid people who can operate a computer?

dlq04

Yes. Junk email, junk snail mail, and junk phone calls do work. As Rob said it only works on very, very small percentage of people but because of the low cost of an email, postage stamp, or phone recording it is profitable enough that the marketing goes on, and on, and on...............

martha

It's scary. And to think, some of these idiots vote. The thought makes me shudder.

PanteraKitty

One of the deTomaso guys has a spam filter that will only let an e-mail through if he has entered your e-mail address as an approved sender. Even if you are on the approved list, it will not let anything through that is addressed to more than one recipient.