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Originally Posted by dellwear
You are right in one respect but unfortunately the spamers also spam certain e-mail providers without even knowing that an address exists. They will just send out millions of e-mails to common.names@Hotmail.com or common.names@NTLWORLD.COM.
Not all of us are lucky enough to run our own e-mail, we have to stick with the mail providers (for most it's their ISP).
Personally I stick with Yahoo for my main address for convenience, but if I end up with a deluge of spam I'll just create another Yahoo account and use that.
People seem to forget that they can change their e-mail address and provider at any time, if you are fed up with spam through your ntlworld account move, pick a decent provider and get on with your life. :p |
Hi dellwear
I have email addys with NTL, Hotmail & I-Web Solutions.
The Hotmail one does get some spam, maybe 2 a week, the I-Web one has been up a couple of months, hasn't been used much & so far is spam free.
I have 2 addys on NTL, one my wife uses (rarely), & mine, although I also pick up her mail if I send/receive before she does (which is most of the time, 'cos she mainly uses Hotmail
). Her addy is getting up to 20 spams a day - I get virtually none
The only difference is that I run Ad-aware & Viruscan & keep them updated, while she has Viruscan, but doesn't update it very often & always forgets to run Ad-Aware
Last time I chivvied her to do it she had two minor nasties & loads of tracking cookies.
You are right about moving your addy being a solution, that's ok on Hotmail, Yahoo, etc, but software registrations, Paypal, etc
need an ISP provided addy - so I use Mailwasher Pro to keep spam in check on all the accounts, use my NTL addy as my main one and will use my I-Web account only for friends.
Gaz