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VampiricClown
02-20-2008, 10:27 AM
I am going through and cleaning out my old email account inboxes. I have a question, why is it that all of my Yahoo! accounts have over 1,000 spam messages, but my AOL and Hotmail accounts have maybe 2-3?

Does Yahoo! intentionally spam people? My Gmail account is completely spam free.

Angra
02-20-2008, 01:03 PM
I am going through and cleaning out my old email account inboxes. I have a question, why is it that all of my Yahoo! accounts have over 1,000 spam messages, but my AOL and Hotmail accounts have maybe 2-3?

Does Yahoo! intentionally spam people? My Gmail account is completely spam free.


I don't know.

I daily get shit loads of spam mails in my hotmail box. And i rarely surf porn.

I blame the euroinvest site tho..

VampiricClown
02-20-2008, 02:27 PM
I don't know.

I daily get shit loads of spam mails in my hotmail box. And i rarely surf porn.

I blame the euroinvest site tho..

I rarely do as well. And I never give my email out on those things. It's weird.

missmacabre
02-20-2008, 03:42 PM
hmm I have hotmail and I never get spam.




I also raaaarely surf the porn for the record ;)

neverending
02-20-2008, 04:38 PM
When you sign up for a yahoo account they by default share your information with their "trusted partners." Otherwise known as anyone & everyone they can sell your info to. Several years ago when they made this change to their "privacy policy" they were highly criticized for it. Still, you have to click something when you sign up to opt out of this wonderful opportunity to recieve offers from their trusted partners.

VampiricClown
02-21-2008, 07:34 AM
When you sign up for a yahoo account they by default share your information with their "trusted partners." Otherwise known as anyone & everyone they can sell your info to. Several years ago when they made this change to their "privacy policy" they were highly criticized for it. Still, you have to click something when you sign up to opt out of this wonderful opportunity to recieve offers from their trusted partners.

Maybe I should just can my old accounts then.

ferretchucker
02-21-2008, 08:08 AM
I use MSN Hotmail.

VampiricClown
02-21-2008, 08:53 AM
I use MSN Hotmail.

I have one of those, something about it is just alien to me. Gmail is what I'm currently using as my primary.

Vodstok
02-21-2008, 09:52 AM
yahoo is bad. i think part of the issue is that yahoo mail is one of the oldest free providers out there, so the spam engines run through yahoo first, because they are garunteed to hit millions of addresses that way.

Gmail is newer, was for a long time very exclusive, and on top of eveyrthing else, the google folks are fucking sharp. I love my gmail :) , i run my business with it.

the_real_linda
02-24-2008, 05:50 AM
gotta agree my yahoo account is ridiculous... msn and aol only get a few

Freak
02-24-2008, 03:07 PM
I get tons of spam in my hotmail and yahoo accounts.But it doesn't bother me casue I rarely use them any way.


How do you get a g-mail account?

VampiricClown
02-24-2008, 03:14 PM
I get tons of spam in my hotmail and yahoo accounts.But it doesn't bother me casue I rarely use them any way.


How do you get a g-mail account?

Go to google.com and there is a little button at the top that says Gmail.