Aha - Spam

[Lilaena De'Ville]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5279826/

So glad I don't have an AOL account. :p

[ReaperFett]

The unnamed spammer admitted to using the AOL e-mail addresses to send e-mail marketing herbal penile enlargement pills.
This news in the same week as the news that a scene had to be cut from a Colin Farrell movie because something was too distracting? Hmm.....

[Kieran Devaneaux]

Originally posted by ReaperFett
This news in the same week as the news that a scene had to be cut from a Colin Farrell movie because something was too distracting? Hmm.....

Screwed up, isn't it? And I use AOHell, too....though there won't be too much of a difference, I get spam every day. (Doesn't everyone?)

[Marcus Telcontar]

Originally posted by Kieran Devaneaux
Screwed up, isn't it? And I use AOHell, too....though there won't be too much of a difference, I get spam every day. (Doesn't everyone?)

No. Not a one.

[imported_Natia Telcontar]

How do you NOT get spam??

[Darth007]

I dont either. I'm popup and spam free woot woot

[Dan the Man]

There are much better reasons to not use AOL, one being that they will disclose your personal information to the RIAA so they can sue you.

[Crystal]

^ I bet that cuts down their user list


I'm pretty much spam free.. Yahoo has a "bulk" folder all spam mails go into and it works great. unless I'm expecting an automated mail(it seems to think most of them are spam as well) I just hit "empty" next to it and they're gone. If it wasn't there, I'd have anywhere from 30 - 100 a day.

[Kieran Devaneaux]

Originally posted by Crystal
Yahoo has a "bulk" folder all spam mails go into and it works great.

So does AOL....trouble is, not everything makes it there.

[Cyrel Annat]

The only time I have ever been entirely spam free is now with the email client for my own domain. There's a boxtrapper function that pretty much prevents any and all spam from getting through. Before that, no matter which email/ISP provider I used, I got tons of spam. AOL, yahoo, hotmail, mindspring. They all have 'spam-blockers' but they really don't work.

[Slayn Cloak]

Hmmmm? I don't get spam, or pops... Yaay! I'm finnaly in the marcus club! When do I get my jacket?

[Figrin D'an]

I don't get spam to my primary email accounts. I do get spam to my Yahoo! account because it's pretty much my garbage account. But the filters they have do a good job of catching just about everything.

Pop-ups... never been a big problem. Don't get them at all.

Knowledge is power when it comes to dealing with both of these annoyances. Learn about them to learn how to defeat them.

[Dan the Man]

Originally posted by Crystal
^ I bet that cuts down their user list

Well, I don't think my family will be doing business with them after that little fiasco.

[Alpha]

Originally posted by Slayn Cloak
Hmmmm? I don't get spam, or pops... Yaay! I'm finnaly in the marcus club! When do I get my jacket?

You mean the white jacket with the extra long arms? :)

[Slayn Cloak]

No, it's kind of a grey really, and it's hand stiched!