Man I Hate Hotmail

[Arvon]

A lot ISP's will allow you to have more than one mail box. Only give the address to people you want contact from. Use one of the other addresses for contacting web sites. The just let it fill up. In awhile the senders will get messages that there's no more room at the inn.

BTW some US states have laws preventing spam. The spammer can be fined $500 per event. Some guy in Washington state made $7000 suing.

[ 12-19-2002, 08:55 PM: Message edited by: Arvon ]

[Ladyzekke]

Originally posted by Arvon: A lot ISP's will allow you to have more than one mail box. Only give the address to people you want contact from. Use one of the other addresses for contacting web sites. The just let it fill up. In awhile the senders will get messages that there's no more room at the inn. BTW some US states have laws preventing spam. The spammer can be fined $500 per event. Some guy in Washington state made $7000 suing.

Oh, well I thought that if I just let the Hotmail fill up, my account would be deleted eventually? So I've been studiously deleting, blocking, deleting, etc. etc all the spam mail. And Oh I WISH I could sue any of these people, but I can't say they are a "frequent" spammer, as I swear every message has a different e-mail addy.

Thanks for answering Arvon, OMG! You actually spoke and didn't tell a joke! Heh, yeah I know lame, but I think of all people you will forgive me.

[Lavindathar]

Yep, thats why I ditched hotmail, and went onto a POP3 account using Outlook Express. It's so good and efficient. No spam, whatsoever.

Hotmail sucks ass compared to it, and I use my POP3 a/c on MSN via passport. It's all cool!

[Sir Krustin]

Originally posted by dragon_lord: Dont you wish you could give spamers a piece of your mind? They might think twice before sending their crap your way again. You always got to be careful when registering at websites that they dont sign you up for god knows what.

It's too bad WinNuke doesn't work on XP...you did know that the IP of the sender is usually logged, didn't you?

[Cloudbringer]

Originally posted by ladyzekke: I deleted my old Hotmail account months ago, but had to make another one when upgrading the newest version of MSN (MSN didn't like my e-mail addy apparently, gave me no choices but to create a hotmail account to upgrade). Blah. Well I see nothing's changed, sigh. I have 150 e-mails of crap, loan ads, pills for sale, and porn at 80% of the 150. I mean to me it is just ridiculous the amounts of junk mail you get with Hotmail. And I have MSN on right now, so when I receive a new e-mail this box pops up informing me. Apparently I have just received an e-mail message from c2651p4563@4P4F.... (I'm not putting the entire thing in, who knows what it could be! *shudder*). With an addy like that, you KNOW something is up. Does anyone get these mails and think "oooo, lookie, I have a message from c2651p4563@4P4F...., I must read this important looking coded message!" [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Oooh! Welcome to spam-mail nirvana, my friend! Just loookie here what we can send you today! Free for your pleasure and his, pills to make you big in any part of your anaaaaaaaatomy, my friend! And do you want to remove unwanted hair from someplace? We have the cure! Debbie will do Dallas and Karen has a webcam and wet....uh...well you know the score! So don't delay! Send money now!
And if you want to help us out, our best friend's uncles, grandmother's aunt is a wealthy farmer who isn't loved by the repressive regime in Tai..uh, Niger...er, Switzerland and we need to move her money out fast! So send us 12,000 US dollars and we'll arrange to send 20,OOO smelt to your bank right away!

Yes, spam-mail nirvana...oooh I can smell the mortgage loans and cheap ink cartridges now.... [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img]

[Ladyzekke]

ROTFL Sis! Hey, did you know, someone named Cordina really would like to be my friend? Awww, aint that just so sweet I could just chew on a wheat grass huh huh!

Did you know that hair plugs are the latest rage? Cheap and better than toupes apparently. Are hair plugs powered by suction cups? or is it that horrid stapling thing I've seen on infomercials?

[Sir Krustin]

One trend I've been noticing lately is a rise on the number of messages from "single girls" who just happen to have a website with pics...I don't know if this is just a new way of searching for a mate or a doorway to a porn site...(never looked, just deleted)

[Cloudbringer]

Well, you haven't lived until someone named Candy tells you she's got live camera action of her bosom... or someone named Lola offers to do unspeakable things to you ....but still it's a mystery to me how any of us can do without the wonders of the miracle pills and cheap loans! Why only this morning I 'won two free tickets to anywhere'!

You should check out the plugs, I bet they use KrazyGlue!

[Luvian]

I have been using my hotmail account for years and I don't get ANY spam at all.

When you register, you need to make sure you uncheck the little box giving them right to send you "interesting offers".

Then, turn on the spam protection option, and when some spam manage to still get in your inbox, simply block it, and when they ask you if you want to ban that particular adress only or the whole email server, block the server. That's it, no more spam coming from @greatoffers.com, for example.

[Sir Krustin]

Originally posted by Luvian: I have been using my hotmail account for years and I don't get ANY spam at all.

I can't be bothered using Hotmail for anything but a spam-trap. Whenever I'm required to provide an email address to an untrusted website, I give them a hotmail account all of my serious mail goes to my POP3 account at my ISP.