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There's good mail hosts and there is bad mail hosts
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 10:32 am
by JPlush76
I have two free email accounts, hotmail and yahoo. Yahoo is my main one and I use hotmail for crap I dont really want to go to my email box.
The hotmail account gets about 200 junk emails a day and 180 of them go to my inbox and 20 go the to junk mail folder
My yahoo account gets about 50 junk emails a day and 47 go into the junk mail folder and only about 3 get into my inbox on a given day.
Why the hell does hotmail suck sooooo bad? I also signed up for the $20 yahoo mail. It rocks
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 12:41 pm
by phice
I use hotmail and my email is widely known, and I only get about 10 spam emails a day. I turn the spam control to the one below "Only contacts may email me".
bob@bob.com
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 1:01 pm
by phpScott
I use hotmail as a email account that I give out when I aboslutely have to have a valid email for a program and they are going to send me an id or some thing but I also have a hunch that I will be spammed.
When I need a valid email and I don't need something back some poor guy named
bob@bob.com gets put on all sorts of lists because it is so easy to type.
phpScott
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 1:05 pm
by JPlush76
lol poor bob
I usually go with
user@server.net
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:09 pm
by twigletmac
I tend to use
fake@fake.com - I hate having to give out information like e-mail addresses, post codes etc. without any good reason. For where I have to give a zip code they get 90210 and any old random stuff for UK post code.
I gave up on free e-mail a long time ago - I use addresses like
amazon@mydomain.com now so if I get spammed I know where it originated and I can at least have a go at the people who sold on my address.
Mac
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:11 pm
by JPlush76
lol clever mac!
I rarely use my real address unless its sites I really trust.
Jason better not be sellin mah <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> yo!
lol
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:17 pm
by nielsene
I prefer to use
name@example.net
Its gaurenteed not to exist, so I don't end up signing some poor guy up for spam and I haven't found a service yet that rejects the example.net domain.
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:28 pm
by phice
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:39 pm
by JPlush76
HAHA phice!
let the war begin
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 5:15 am
by m3mn0n
lmao i use 90210 all the time too
it's my dedication to the coolest show of the early/mid 90's!

Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 5:34 am
by patrikG
Gah, Beverly Hills 90210 - but I liked that black haired girl, what's her name. The one who was in "Charmed" (and didn't look as good anymore)...
Anyway, I use
http://www.gmx.net - it's a German service and the good thing about them is that you have pop3-access and very effective spam-control, tons of options etc. I suppose you'd have to be able to understand a bit of German to sign up - but don't come whining and telling me that's not worth it...

Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 11:50 am
by Drachlen
haha, i use 90210 too.... for my email normally its
no@thanks.com