More Spam, Fewer Complaints?

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There is a recent study out there that claims spam is at an all-time high but people are complaining less about it. What?!? Can it be true that most people have just accepted the fact that nothing is being done about spam?

It's maybe starting to become part of life online," said Susannah Fox, associate director with Pew. "Once something's part of life online, people feel that they should just stop complaining about it and move on, even though people are still annoyed by it."
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I don't get any spam. It all ends up here:

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I personally don't complain about it anymore because GMail is so darned good at keeping it out of my inbox.

Checking GMail just now I see that I've received almost 2,000 spam emails in the last 30 days... I consider that a lot... but it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Friedmud
 
The only people that complain to me about spam are the exact same people who gave the spammers our distribution lists in the first place. I think the notion that people are starting to accept it is probably accurate. Another problem is that a lot of admins and execs are so scared of false positives they take very little action to block anything. (Obviously more prevalent in small/medium business.)
 
Yeah, I think I get about one spam message that actually makes it into my inbox every week or so. Not exactly an epidemic as far as I can see, so no complaining.
 
LeTUOtter said:
Yeah, I think I get about one spam message that actually makes it into my inbox every week or so. Not exactly an epidemic as far as I can see, so no complaining.
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What he said. I'm careful about who gets my address.
 
My isp and I'm sure others give you the option to filter it even before it hits your inbox.
 
I have over 1 million spam in my spam filter aka junk mail bin that gets filter I never look at it I empty it so I never ture get to see what they are. And its all done automatically for me.

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for most of our client at work we tend to use the phone and verify emails didn't filtered as spam, especially if they haven't responded in a week
 
Mega2 said:
I have over 1 million spam in my spam filter aka junk mail bin that gets filter I never look at it I empty it so I never ture get to see what they are. And its all done automatically for me.

:)
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You do realize that having "a million spam messages" in your junk filter, you are bogging down your system with an incredibly large email datafile. I have about 3000 saved emails in my email account (I archive out, then purge every 2 months) and my email datafile is currently 290MB.
 
Hi, I'm the dying security company. I just did something to create enough ruckus to get us noticed for something other than sucking. Be impressed.
 
defuseme2k said:
BAH. Wrong THREAD!
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If you hadn't made a stink about it, I would have absent-mindedly skimmed over it, internalizing nothing....

I get more spam than ever but I don't care because I have a special email address that my spam is sent to. I'm very careful how I give out my other email addresses.
 
Steve said:
There is a recent study out there that claims spam is at an all-time high but people are complaining less about it. What?!? Can it be true that most people have just accepted the fact that nothing is being done about spam?
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Yes.

You can only complain about something so much before you accept it's inevitability, give up, and settle for partial mitigation.
 
Zinn said:
I get more spam than ever but I don't care because I have a special email address that my spam is sent to. I'm very careful how I give out my other email addresses.
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All it takes is for one person you trusted with your sacred email address to get infected with a virus that uses their Address Book to propagate, and you're doomed.
 
Well here is why I stopped complaining. No one is listening!

Sure tech companies are writing filters, but that is like trying to stop the tide from coming in with a bucket. Goverments have laws, but not all of them, so there are safe havens. Goverments with laws barely seem to inforce them.

So I view it as the equivlient of complaining loudly at a wall. Same results.
 
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