[BJungNan]

Upset by Junk Email? We bring it on ourselves - or at least those of us that respond to junk emails bring it on. This guy would not be boasting if he had no customers.

Don't under any circumstances respond to junk email. If you do, you have only yourself to blame for all junk email that you bring on yourself and the rest of us.

There was also an article on this guy by the WSJ which you can access Here

[martin_fierro]

Charges filed (and $16M civil judgement) against Buffalo, NY Spammer

Mailwasher

[goldstategop]

By spam, one means unsolicited commercial email the recipient didn't sign up or ask for. Its a pox on Internet business and the sleazy few ensure its difficult to next to impossible for honest people to make a living on the Internet.

[FairOpinion]

In my opinion, this is no different than telemarketers or junk "regular" mail.

I don't particularly like my mailbox full of junk e-mail, I have to work hard to make sure I don't accidentally delete legitimate mail, but I can delete the e-mails I don't want, just the way I can throw out the junk regular mail and screen my calls to avoid telemarketers.

The only ones I really am upset over are the junk faxers, who use my paper to fax me stuff I don't want and tie up my machine, when a legitimate fax maybe trying to get through.

[mercy]

I keep wondering when they are going to realize that spam does not work. I never even see the stuff. My filter trashes it without my ever seeing it. It never makes it to my computer. Surely most puter users have a filter by now. Why are people dumping money into spam? Talk about a mystery?! Surely they have a complete list of all the porn junkies extant. Why send all this other crap out to a filter program to be dumped? It's so stupid!

[Humidston]

At least 80% of my email is Spam. I hate it and wouldn't click a link contained in a Spam message, if my life depended on it!

May I ask, do you guys recommend blocking or unsubscribing?

[lowbridge]

Don't under any circumstances respond to junk email. If you do, you have only yourself to blame for all junk email that you bring on yourself and the rest of us.

I never respond to junk email, and yet I still find the number of junk emails coming to me growing, and growing, and growing.

In two instances a junk emailer used my real address as his phony return address. The first one was a junk email for a porn website in which case I got angry emails from people telling me that they dont like that junk. And in the other instance, it was an MLM business opportunity in which I got more angry emails, a resume from someone in India looking for a job, and a question from some interested person who asked me how much money was my business bringing in.

In BOTH cases I also got viruses sent to me by some anonymous, but angry people who thought I was the spammer.

[Alouette]

The only thing I hate more than spam email is getting telemarketing calls ON MY CELL PHONE. This is beyond sucky. Caller ID always shows up as "call from unavailable" but unfortunately so do calls from my son, who lives in Europe.

[Puntagorda]

I personally get 300 emails a day - 80% are spam, the rest are legitimate customer contacts interested in our products.

Prior to adding a spam filter, I'd spend an hour or more sorting through all the email, trying to find the 50 legitimate messages out of the 300 spam (a lot of very offensive stuff there.)

This was costing me and our company a lot of time (at least 300 hours a year, not including spam induced viruses, spybots, etc.)

Four months ago we started using the FREE PopFile Baysian logic spam filter - which has the ability to learn from your actions what is spam.

Now our spam load has been reduced to less than 5 a day that slip through the filters.

I am not associated with PopFile, but is has saved us thousands of dollars in lost labor.

Find it at http://popfile.sourceforge.net/old_index.html

It's free, and it works.