Reason #10
My tenth reason deals with spam filters. I have huge issues with how Hotmail filters spam. I have tried to confiure my filters and blocks to be effective but spammers are still getting through day after day. For example, if I have a friend with a @yahoo.com account and I only want that one yahoo.com address to be allowed into my account, there is no way to block all of the millions of possible variations of @yahoo.com. The only way to do it is to block the entire domain, which would also block my friend's email. In my opinion, their filtering/blocking is useless. I've read that GMail is serious about blocking spam and I dearly hope that is true, because I am so tired of receiving ads for mortgages, pills and porn that do nothing but fill up my account.
3 Comments:
At 6:38 AM,
al said…
Gmail Swap.
I have to say I'm very proud of my own Gmail account, but on the other hand I am afraid to actually use it very much for fear that it will be siezed by some evil spambot.
At 10:49 AM,
Jen said…
So far, have you received a lot of spam in your account?
At 9:13 PM,
al said…
No spam yet. It's funny, when you go to your 'spam' folder and it's empty it says "Hooray, no spam here!"
You know you can always go to SpyMac.com and sign up for their 1GB free email accounts :)
Post a Comment
<< Home