E-Mail Overload Is a Myth, Study Says

[Jon_King]

Article posted in Washington Post concerning email spam:

[washingtonpost.com...]

(Spam is still a problem for me.)

[jackofalltrades]

Ive got to say that the findings are pretty accurate for me.

I dont have that much email to deal with in my work accounts. The bulk of spam i get (90%) goes to my hotmail account.

JOAT

[Liane]

I think this was kind of skewed by the type of people she interviewed. I think e:mail spam is much worse for those who own websites and whose e:mail addresses are out there to be grabbed. That is of course unless the average joe has managed to get on a spammers list somehow.

[GilbertZ]

I am getting about 10 spam emails as I write this post. It is a HUGE problem. Had I started on the internet later, would not have been a problem. But try to get your email address removed from old defunct websites. And you have to keep using your email addy in case you get notified to renew a domain name or something important. Something big has to be done.

One big trick if you have domains you run, in the old days by default many would have [e-mail] forwarded...much better to have specific accounts and don't pick up the rest because spammers will send to [e-mail] [e-mail] just to try and snag a live one.