I still get Viagra spam.They must be spying on me.

All they had to do was write a program that detects incorrect grammar and syntax. That wipes out 90% of the spam right there.

Now all we have to do is getting rid of Rachel from cardmember services on the robo calls

Who needs a larger democrat anyway?

I hope the "spam" snail mail is next/

I worked in the email security industry for about 8 years, and there is a lot to stopping the problem.

The underlying problem is the protocol that is used to send mail (acronym SMTP). There is no authentication built into it, so anyone can claim to be anyone else.

Plus, it´s not just about blocking bad mail, on the flip side (and far more important) is that good mail not get blocked (know as a "false positive").

Consider this example. One message from a spammer says, "Hi, let´s have lunch some time". A second message from a legitimate (i. e. non-spam) sender says the same thing. Success depends on blocking the former without blocking the latter.

And this is a very simple example. But it can be done.

We still get over 200 spam messages a day. We blacklist. Our webguy filters. Still it comes in.

Tell that to my inbox!

I complained about those ´card service´ calls to the pennsylvania attorney general´s office. The woman there said that nothing could be done, because it is an off shore scam. (check the area code - I have gotten some from Kuwait.
(For those of you unfamiliar with the card services scam, the content of the call is to make you believe it is coming from your credit card company, reassuring you that your account is OK, but offering to find you a better interest rate. And apparently, some folks give up their current credit card account information and social security number.
And our government is doing nothing about it.)
I have had calls from Canada and Kuwait, as well as stateside calls for NY.

Long, sweeping bow to #4.

I am getting more spam. Goes in the spam box. I don´t bother looking at it. Just one click it clean.

Yahoo does nothing to stop spam.

And secondly, I am convinced that the gummint permits the phone spammers to use the Do Not Call list as their source of victims.

Agree wholeheartedly, #12!

I think this contains a lesson in human nature. Spammers put a lot of effort and ingenuity into their spam programs. If this same effort and knowledge was put into honest computer services to help people understand and use their computers would they not be able to earn more money than they now get through fraud? There is such a wasted effort in producing then stopping this fraud. Why do criminal minds assume it is easier to take than to earn wealth?

I´m surprised that some here get so much spam. Years ago, I got tons of it. But in the past five years, it has diminished to a very low point. I do use mailwasher to pre-screen my emails. But it hasn´t found more than one or two per month for several years now and even the email it doesn´t recognize tends to be from a new contact that I haven´t cleared in it. My ISP is obviously the key to such a low volume. I also haven´t had a "rachel" call in at least six months. I hope this posting doesn´t snake bite my apparently good fortune. ;-)

Yahoo sells you email immediately upon your establishing the address. I set up an yahoo address for one purpose - never sent or received an email on that account. By the first week, I had 500 spams in that mail. Try it for yourself!

I think Spam on personal computers is going away because they are directing their spam as fake comments on as many blog sites that they can get away with. It is very annoying to deal with. But at least it isn´t on my computer as much lately.

How can we be sure the software makers fighting spam/virus emails, etc., are not the one`s creating the harmful emails/virus` in the first place?