counting the cost of cybergeddon...
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octane
I have issues, OK!
Well it certainly did cost me valuable time and money.
Only a couple of week ago, I was getting upwards of 200 spam email per day.
This was a little less intense a while ago when I only had dial-up, but I had to go into my web mail to delete all of the spam. This was my commercial work time, plus phone charges .. and I'm running a mac!
To combat this, I went around all of my domain names and cut out all of the anything@ emails and either switched email forwarding off all together or trimmed them down to either just one or two email addresses.
And having always-on broadband and some pretty tight Mail spam filtering has done the rest...
Only a couple of week ago, I was getting upwards of 200 spam email per day.
This was a little less intense a while ago when I only had dial-up, but I had to go into my web mail to delete all of the spam. This was my commercial work time, plus phone charges .. and I'm running a mac!
To combat this, I went around all of my domain names and cut out all of the anything@ emails and either switched email forwarding off all together or trimmed them down to either just one or two email addresses.
And having always-on broadband and some pretty tight Mail spam filtering has done the rest...
Arden
Where mah "any" keys at?
See, that's what I love about Mail.com. Though it's ad-supported (and the current ads-between-page-loads system is, while annoying, better than other stuff they've done) if you keep it free, I get very little spam, and no MyDoom stuff that I've been able to discern. And if you upgrade for, oh, I think it's $4/month, you can get POP3 access, no ads, etc.
Oh yeah, and the 100 or so different domain names is nice... wouldn't you like to be octane@graphic-designer.com?
Oh yeah, and the 100 or so different domain names is nice... wouldn't you like to be octane@graphic-designer.com?
octane
I have issues, OK!
Arden said:
Not really!
I'm happy the domains I have which are all company-related.
Anyway, I wouldn't use any mail account where I don't have full control over. All of my domains are full-managed so I can go in and twiddle & tweak to my hearts content.
And let's face it, it isn't very professional to offer a client a free email address like my Hotmail account...
Hmm... I've often heard that there are some strange lawsuits in the USA. Can't we see a class-action suit against Microsoft for this one? Would bankrupt them, probably. And then Apple could buy and kill MS and all of their products and say: "That's what MS did with a lot of competitors in their time." ;-)