What do you guys think are the best ways to get rid of spam in my inbox. It sucks having a bunch of messages and not knowing which ones are good and which ones aren't.
ive got like about 8 email accts i use, and it all gets received by thunderbird
i split up my accts to deal w/ stuf like school, billings/purchases, misc crap, personal life
i think that works pretty well, using a single email for everything is a pretty bad idea once you get stuck on a mailing list, it circulates and ur screwed and can never get off it
I change my email every year. Probably lose a lot of contacts in the process, but it definitely keeps the spam to a minimum. And guard your email, don't ever enter it into random websites because it gets passed on, increasing your level of spam
An executive at Microsoft Corp. has an unusual idea for beating spammers. Powerful software tools and supercomputers aren't involved, but kittens are.
Or rather, photos of kittens. Kevin Larson, a researcher at Microsoft's advanced reading technologies group, has found that asking a user to identify the subject of a photo, like a kitten, could help block spam programs.
Currently, services like Microsoft's free e-mail service Hotmail require new users to type in a string of distorted letters as proof that it's a human signing up for the account and not a computer. Called Human Interactive Proofs (HIPs), Microsoft, Ticketmaster and a host of other companies have been using the system for around five years, Larson said. He spoke in Seattle on Friday at TypeCon 2007, an annual conference put on by the Society of Typographic Aficionados for type enthusiasts and designers.
When Hotmail first started using HIPs, the number of e-mail accounts generated on the first day dropped by 20 percent without an increase in support queries, Larson said. That was a sign that the HIPs were fooling the computer programs that spammers use to automate signing up for new Hotmail accounts from which spam is sent. However, spammers learned how to tweak their programs to better recognize the HIPs, he said.[quote]
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i split up my accts to deal w/ stuf like school, billings/purchases, misc crap, personal life
i think that works pretty well, using a single email for everything is a pretty bad idea once you get stuck on a mailing list, it circulates and ur screwed and can never get off it
So far so good.. no major spam problems that can't be fixed.
[quote]Kittens Could Solve Spam
An executive at Microsoft Corp. has an unusual idea for beating spammers. Powerful software tools and supercomputers aren't involved, but kittens are.
Or rather, photos of kittens. Kevin Larson, a researcher at Microsoft's advanced reading technologies group, has found that asking a user to identify the subject of a photo, like a kitten, could help block spam programs.
Currently, services like Microsoft's free e-mail service Hotmail require new users to type in a string of distorted letters as proof that it's a human signing up for the account and not a computer. Called Human Interactive Proofs (HIPs), Microsoft, Ticketmaster and a host of other companies have been using the system for around five years, Larson said. He spoke in Seattle on Friday at TypeCon 2007, an annual conference put on by the Society of Typographic Aficionados for type enthusiasts and designers.
When Hotmail first started using HIPs, the number of e-mail accounts generated on the first day dropped by 20 percent without an increase in support queries, Larson said. That was a sign that the HIPs were fooling the computer programs that spammers use to automate signing up for new Hotmail accounts from which spam is sent. However, spammers learned how to tweak their programs to better recognize the HIPs, he said.[quote]