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> Email spam has been "tamed" on most mainstream providers - you still get some of it, but nowhere near the amounts you get on the web. Weird, my experience is
by wizofaus 4y ago
> Email spam has been "tamed" on most mainstream providers - you still get some of it, but nowhere near the amounts you get on the web.
Weird, my experience is the exact opposite. Maybe once a week I click on a promising looking web search result to find that it's essentially "spam". But every single day I get multiple emails that are obviously so, and worse, if I don't check my junk folder frequently I miss important emails.
- Nextgrid 4y agoWhat email provider are you using? On Office 365 I get barely anything. One a week at best that actually makes it to the inbox, which seems very tame compared to just about any general-purpose search engine query.
- dagw 4y agoOn Office 365 I get barely anything Both my wife and I have Office 365 at our respective places of work. I get maybe one spam mail a month into my inbox, my wife gets several a day and we both only use our work email strictly for work. So there is some factor beyond just email provider that makes a huge difference.
- wizofaus 4y agoI have O365, hotmail & gmail accounts - O365 I only use for work and virtually never use the address for anything except a few work-related services, plus it's a new address so sure, that's spam free (so far). If MS have actually found a way to accurately filter out spam on O365 they definitely haven't applied the same tech to hotmail/live mail. Gmail's no any better (though I only use that account rarely).