Redmak Founder Share Posted December 10, 2001 Even though my junk mail box (hotmail) is deleted every 14 days I still have over 500 junk mail messages in there. How much resources are used by all this spam? I mean sending , receiving, processing for all the hotmail users. I even get spam on my neowin account now ... thank God for junkmail filters :) Link to post Share on other sites
0 Geronimo Share Posted December 10, 2001 i read somewhere that spam had increase 650% in the last year. Link to post Share on other sites
0 Geronimo Share Posted December 10, 2001 here is the link http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2100516,00.html Link to post Share on other sites
0 fr33k Share Posted December 10, 2001 I use to like fried spam sandwiches :cross: Link to post Share on other sites
0 Faction Share Posted December 10, 2001 i cant believe anyone actually eats spam :p It looks so.. tofu-ish.. : Anyway, yeah. i only use my hotmail account for people i dont trust, but when i do check it, its full with bs.. :right: Link to post Share on other sites
0 radixvir Share Posted December 10, 2001 someone needs to get a law passed making spam illegal. i mean it is unwanted email. if you get x amount of complaints they should be fined some incredible amount of money. Link to post Share on other sites
0 SpeaR Share Posted December 10, 2001 Hotmail sucks anyway, why use it at all. All i got from my hotmail is spam spam and more spam even that blocker didnt work sometimes. I think prv emails own. Yahoo is much better than hotmail i think. It just 0wnz ;) Link to post Share on other sites
0 LiGhTfast Share Posted December 10, 2001 sad life less geeks have to do something with their time, they probly pretend that making this bull **** is their jobs... ****es me off really bad when i get all this **** in my inbox there are some sad *******s in this world.... do they tgink we read or even look at there crap?? :/ Link to post Share on other sites
0 Roger H. Veteran Share Posted December 10, 2001 haha.. just turn on your filters. Check your options then set it to Normal or Highest or something.. right now it's on low so just turn it up some more and 90% of that will be gone. Link to post Share on other sites
0 EmuZombie Veteran Share Posted December 10, 2001 Originally posted by radixvir someone needs to get a law passed making spam illegal. i mean it is unwanted email. if you get x amount of complaints they should be fined some incredible amount of money. actually, in the US it IS illegal... Link to post Share on other sites
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Even though my junk mail box (hotmail) is deleted every 14 days I still have over 500 junk mail messages in there.
How much resources are used by all this spam? I mean sending , receiving, processing for all the hotmail users.
I even get spam on my neowin account now ... thank God for junkmail filters :)
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