definitely not because of the Mac. besides the Mail account, junk is filtered at the mail server (ie. hotmail.com, yahoo.com, the-university.edu, YOURISP.com), as for the methods that are used, they really differ from spammer to spammer, although you're right about the programs.
as you can see, I use hotmail and it holds up pretty well. most of my spam comes from one source. yahoo is also okay, but i always found hotmail to be on par- or better than it.
jp-
From: Anastasia Coles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "G-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "G-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Viruses and Spam Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:34:41 -0500
You know, I've always wondered about the mechanisms for dissemination both spam and viruses use. I think I kind of understand viruses (I've never had any on my Macs though) but I thought spam was disseminated by programs crawling around the web picking up email addresses.
I have Yahoo, Hotmail, an ISP-account and a university email account that I juggle. Hotmail is for old, old friends, yahoo is more workaday, the ISP-account is for personal interest listservs (like this one) and the university one is for university work. The worst was always the Hotmail but then I didn't check it for a month, it lapsed and I had to reactivate it. Since reactivation I get absolutely no spam on it. I never get spam on my Yahoo and have maybe received 3-4 on my university account. I check my ISP-account via Mail and it seems to be filtering pretty well.
I've always assumed that I'm not found that much by spammers because I don't spread my email around that publicly. I figured that Hotmail got so much spam because it was hotmail (although I've never had the problem with yahoo).
Is it because I'm on a Mac or some other reason?
Anastasia
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