Something strange is happening.

Over the past week or two the number of emails in my Hotmail Junk folder have been dropping.

Everyday I open the folder, scan addresses and hit 'Empty Folder'.
I was up to 100+ a day but it's in decline. The last few days have been 34, 22, 19 and today, just 11.

I'm wondering whether resolutely ignoring them (not ever opening them, ever) gets you dropped from the list eventually (because most of them increase their sending if you use their "unsubscribe" method - ie: Active Account! Let's mail them some more!), or if Hotmail's finally starting to block some of the larger known culprits, or (most unlikely) they've developed ethics simultaneously...???

Anyone else experiencing this?

I dont have a hotmail account but hope they are getting a clue! I tend to have good(no spam) and bad (lotsa span) e-mail days. I could filter them but its easier just to delete

From what I understand, Hotmail is attempting new filters. Sounds like they are working.

I deleted my Hotmail account a month or so ago, the spam mail got too insane. At LEAST 50 per day. And I reckon since my name didn't really make it obvious if I was male or female, I got double the "enhancement" mails for both ends of the board! I think I'm gonna try Yahoo Mail, see how that goes [img]smile.gif[/img]

I think they improved their spam filters. I get tons of spam mail on my hotmail account, though. And you can only block 250 addresses. I hit the max a while ago!

I wonder what would happen if the people who sent spam mail, received a punch in the nose from every person who they sent mail, one punch for every mail they sent. I wonder how many they'd send out?

Ive noticed that mine has dropped considerably as well in the past few days. I think I have only got 4 junk emails in the past 5 days which makes me very happy. I was averaging at least 4 a day.

Cloudy, open up a new account. There is a little button that says Allow us to advertise you email to companies somewhere in the registration. I believe that it is automatically checked. I unchecked it, and I hardly get any emails!!! [img]smile.gif[/img]

I can't access my account because the server that holds it is being repaired. [img]graemlins/1pissed.gif[/img] I prefer Yahoo! mail to hotmail though. 6 times the storage and hardly any junk mail.

ya i noticed that too... i now have a full account one in every 5 days instead of two. [img]smile.gif[/img]