IIRC, someone else mentioned how much spam they're getting in their hotmail account. I'm getting several a day. It seems to be since I joined Vodafone!
I put them into my blocked email addresses and there must be hundreds now. I wonder if there's a limit to the number I can block and if I can see a list of them. Anyone know?
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I think spammers must use some sort of auto-generator for their addresses. I get far fewer spams now. Have they given up?
If I am not sure and it's gone into my in box, I hover the mouse over the sender's address and the real address pops up, they are so obviously fake.
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I'm on live rather than hotmail and use the free outlook mail programme.
Pretty much everything that's junk is identified as such and placed in the Junk Folder. MAybe one or two a day recently - the spammers have picked up a bit - but I just delete them.
Occasionally stuff ends up there that shouldn't like newsletters I subscribe to. If I drag them back to the inbox I'm asked to confirm that no further messages from (say) Substack should be put in Junk.
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Hotmail used to be pretty awful for spam - then it seemed to improve but recently re-started again with some indestructible mails about some Elon Musk heating thing. I use it for loads of stuff. It seems to have improved in the last week or so.
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Most spam is caught before it even leaves the originating mail server now. Funnily enough, the odd bit of spam that I have had over the last 6 months is usually from departmental hubs in South American colleges and universities where some student has connected remotely and uses the hub as a relay.
I have a mail filter that traces the real originating address and then does a 'whois' to bounce the spam back to the 'abuse' admin. They usually get the idea and close the hole pretty quickly.
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>> Most spam is caught before it even leaves the originating mail server now. Funnily enough,
>> the odd bit of spam that I have had over the last 6 months is
>> usually from departmental hubs in South American colleges and universities where some student has connected
>> remotely and uses the hub as a relay.
>> I have a mail filter that traces the real originating address and then does a
>> 'whois' to bounce the spam back to the 'abuse' admin. They usually get the idea
>> and close the hole pretty quickly.
That seems like most of the spam I'm getting. Certainly looks like it's coming from educational facilities when I hover the cursor over the sender. I wonder if students get paid for originating the stuff?
I'll have to learn how to filter and bounce back the spam.
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Hotmail blocked addresses - Duncan
