Does Junk Mail Work ?

[Anonymous-0]

Just cleaned off about 20 junk mails from my inbox, that's about a regular day's worth. Often wondered, I realize that whoever is generating the stuff isn't spending hardly a nickle sending out that crap, but do you really think it works and they get much business from it? I wonder if there are any stats that would say how successful it really is.

 

[Anonymous-0]

we get junk in the regular mail, usually 6-7 catalogs , mostally clothes.

 

[Randy S]

The junk mail people love me. I send them the return envelope with nothing in it. They only pay for the postage on the return if it is used, so i use it for them. If they are gonna bother me then ill spend their nickel for them.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Unless you like to recieve all that,up your junk mail filter and it will get dumped before it gets to your In box or will get dumped during,checking e-mail, "Maybe".JC

 

[Randy S]

oops, missed the inbox part, was thinking regular mail, junk email isnt a problem for us ours is blocked by our provider we can look at it if we wish but usually just let them deleat it.

 

[Howard H.]

You hit on the key with "they don't spend a nickel...".

It is so cheap, and they can blast it to so many millions of email accounts over and over, even if they have only a .5% or less return rate, it still makes money!

I'm IT director for a small university with several hundred PCs and servers on my network - it has been a constant battle keeping machines clean from being "hacked" and turned into spam producing generators.

Also - our state run Internet provider was putting some improved spam rules into place a few months ago... Next thing you know - spam dropped VERY dramatically across all my users. I assumed they had come up with a very effective filter and was feeling pretty good, until I read a news story about a big earthquake in the Pacific rim area that knocked much of southeast Asia offline from the USA Internet.

That is what really caused the huge (temporary) drop in spam!!

My point is partly that a lot of it comes from people that are so impoverished or desperate or willing to do anything to make a living, that MUCH of it comes from overseas... (see a relationship with the online scams for purchasing tractors and high-dollar items??)


Howard

 

[old_bc]

My internet provider (Centurytel) implemented some kind of spam filter about 3 months ago on the email server. It is very effective and only 1 or 2 a day get by the filter. It caught 37 messages today so there is a way to reduce spam if the provider is willing to do it.

old_bc

 

[dlplost]

For me, yes it works very good.
I collect it all summer long in a bin out in the garage, then burn it with the wood in the winter to heat the garage when I work out there, kinda like free fire wood..

 

[tg in VA]

I have a mail box provided by my ISP. I never use it but it collects all the junk mail/spam. I have a hotmail email I use. However, the spam is evidentally keyed to the ISP email and I never see it. This works better than anything I've found. As I don't share my ISP email address with anyone, I don't miss any emails and never have to check that mail box.

 

[dan hill]

A flattend tin can will raise their postage bill.

 

[havvey]

I would like to have the rig that challenges email. (you have to type those fuzzy numbers in before it will get to me.) Our server does a good job. Our old server sucked!

 

[Steve Crum]

MSN does a good job for me on the electronic side. On the US mail side, I told the local postmaster I'm going to install a junk mail fired boiler to heat the house and 2 shop buildings. Then I'll get on every mailing list I can and the post office can deliver my heating fuel for free to me. Amazing how some people don't need to say a word to cuss at you.

 

[IH2444]

sure I buy it all, the fake watches, the drugs, the male and female enhancers, etc

 

[David, Surrey UK]

I have several email addresses on websites, all connected to the same inbox. I'm currently getting about 30 spams a day, which I think is acceptable. (If I don't get any messages for an hour or two, I worry about whether the mail servers have gone down!) I delete them manually. The "advantage" with multiple addresses is that the same spam often comes to more than one address, so you can easily spot it.

At one point I was getting 50 or 60 a day, which is too many, but it seems to have eased off a bit recently. Maybe the ISP (1 And 1) is getting better at catching them. I don't have any spam filters switched on, because I do occasionally get enquiries that look like spam at first sight.

David

 

[Kevin Meier Iowa]

I have a program called mailwasher exe it's the best thing I've ever gotten for free. You can make a bloced list and a friends list and bounce junk emails. Get it at www.downloads.com by the way this isn't a spam advertisement. Its the real deal