Comments on: Spammers are winning--and it's not even close

At this point, there is only one thing for us to do, says analyst Jon Oltsik. Purchase the best antispam protection that money can buy.

[ethana2]

gmail

I put my email address all over the internet.
[e-mail]

I have 1739 messages in spam. None in my inbox. I camp it and report spam often within 60 seconds of receiving it. Just use gmail. You've got people like me doing all your spam filtering for you.

[calane83]

gmail

Ditto. I've had a gmail account for over a year now, and I honestly can't remember ever having received spam in my inbox. Gmail is definitely the way to go if you're having spam problems.

[The_Decider]

Spam is merely a symptom of a larger sickness

I get no more then 3 or 4 spams per WEEK.

How?

I use no filters at any point, and I own my own mail server.

What I do is simple.

I don't publish my email address on web sites.

I don't give other web sites my real email address.

All my spam goes where it belongs, straight to Hotmail. I made up a bogus account to use to sign up on different sites. The only time I go there is if a sign up requires email validation.

The result is my real email addresses get basically no spam, and they are all several years old.

In short, don't be stupid and you can radically lower the amount you get.

The other way is to get the idiots out there to stop responding. Everyone rails against spam, but a lot of people still spend money buying whatever shows up in their inbox. If everyone stopped buying, the spam problem would fix itself. In a real way the spam problem is only a symptom of a much larger and serious problem: idiocy.

[blueyes123]

Lucky

If you use the same name with other email sites they'll have that address too.

The problem is the friggin government that doesn't establish laws with harsh penalties and enforce them. This is one thing government is for: so each individual doesn't have to reinvent the wheel. Throw these ******** in prison for 30 years and there will be a drastic decrease. Alternatively, have the FBI release names and addresses and lease out aluminum baseball bats and the spammers will decrease precipitously!

[sirtwist]

At Easy Antispam we typically see about 90-92% of all mail is spam. We have a pretty decent representative sample of about 150 million messages per month across a large number of domains.