posted on October 22, 2005 01:26:32 PM new
Normally I have somewhere around 75 Spam messages in amy Verizon Spam folder. Yesterday set a new high with 452!! I clear this every morning, so I know it was for 24 hrs. It really makes it hard to operate my store if I have to stop & read all of these which I do not do.
posted on October 22, 2005 02:36:21 PM new
We get around zero spam for my websites since no email addresses are visible to the bots and site scrapers. Same goes for eBay listings - all contact has to be through either eBay or a special php form which hides our email addresses.
Do still get the occasional spam every few months on old email accounts - these are reported to spamcop.net where senders are added to the internet black hole
posted on October 22, 2005 03:47:07 PM new
I think I mentioned this before, but I have an email yahoo account I use only for Ebay business. I keep it for about 6-10 months, or until the spam gets out of control, then set up a new one, my spam has dropped to about 5 per week at the very most.
I do go in and check the previous account after switching - for a month or two - on a weekly basis, but almost all Ebay communication goes through them now, so it's unlikely an old customer would try to reach me through the dead email account.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Caroline
posted on October 22, 2005 05:00:24 PM new
Since my husband and I changed our e-mail addresses to add numbers in the middle of the address, we're getting no spam. Something like Suzy51952jones.
Of course, we also got a new ISP at the same time--and perhaps that one is better at filtering spam out. Who knows what works?!
Caroline