Stop spam now
by Fred Roed on 16/05/07 at 11:13 am
8 comments
A few moments ago I did a send and receive and I downloaded 50 or so emails. Of these, 5 were legit – the rest I highlighted and deleted (see below). Crazy stuff. It makes me think of the marketing adage ‘The average person is bombarded by 3000 advertising messages a day, and the average person only retains 6 of them‘. Is email going to be ‘We receive 3000 emails a day, and only 6 of them are legit’ – ?
Fred Roed is the marketing guy in the Ideate crew. Fred is the CEO of web marketing company World Wide Creative and the co-founder of online learning portal Heavy Chef. Fred loves writing about people out there doing marketing right. Follow Fred on Twitter here. View more articles by Fred Roed.
Shane
May 16th, 2007
Why is Mike sending you so many emails? I like your folders…pretty darn organised! Looking at your outlook somehow makes me feel guilty, Voyeurism comes to mind!
Jon
May 16th, 2007
if i screw my eyes up just a little, i think i can see who your mails are from… I’m sure these aren’t the smart ass comments that you’d expect from your friends, I must admit i read Shane’s and his inspired me to write mine, so if you’re gonna get mad then get mad at him…
Shane
May 16th, 2007
Jon, dude- click on the image for hi-res!
David
May 16th, 2007
Don’t forget the mail you have in your “Junk Mail” folder…
CmdrDats
May 16th, 2007
Remind me again why everyone doesn’t use gmail? I have almost forgotten what spam looks like – if it weren’t for the robots filling out my blog comments.
Fred
May 16th, 2007
Deon, believe it or not, I do use Gmail. We also reccommend all our clients use it.
After some scratching, I figured the problem here is that the spam is generated by using my old domain ‘world-africa.com’ (a catch-all that reroutes to my current address) as a ‘from address’ and sending email from it to millions of people. The email I then get is all responses to that mail by pissed off people around the world – all saying ‘Please stop spamming me’
The irony is killing me.
Shane
May 17th, 2007
Fred, does your world-africa.com go to your Gmail?
Gino Cosme
May 18th, 2007
A month ago I had a similar clash with spam and then, by some miracle, it disappeared *touches wood*
As for Gmail, I still get one or two that slip the radar but it’s definately the best web-based mail alternative when it comes to stopping spam from reaching my Inbox.