SPAM Concern
Anyone else seeing an uptake in spam to their hughesnet email address? It has been absolutely crazy the past few days. Over 50 spam emails just yesterday. It isn't even noon today and over 30. I ...
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Spam happens, especially if you use your email around the web for stuff such as subscriptions and other things.
I don't know what makes you say that HN is not doing anything about it. How do you know? The increase in spam has more to do with you than with them, for one, and for two, spam is a thing that evolves and breaks through barriers. It's a constantly escalating war. The ISP blocks them, they come up with new ways. Users post their email address everywhere and get spammed; the ISP can't do much to correct your habits -- you have to do that yourself.
One thing that they have said in the past is to mark every spam email as spam, which makes HN aware of it happening.
They can close one spam door, but others open, and it's not their fault. It's the nature of the internet.
Make sure you don't use your personal email for things that may and will attract spam to you. You're a lot more in control than you think, and there are many things you can do to reduce spam.
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Hello,
I have also had an increase in spam. I get marking it as spam, but yet, it still goes into my inbox. I have also blocked them, but they still come through to my inbox. If we are going to mark them as spam, then shouldn't they go into our spam or junk folder? And if we block them, shouldn't HughesNet stop them?
- It takes time to deal with spam, and it's an ongoing battle, as spammers find new ways to spam.
- ISPs can't stop spam. No one can truly stop spam. At most they can reduce it a bit, and temporarily.
- Continue to mark stuff as spam, then delete it.
- If you would like the mods here to get involved, post under Tech Support, but remember that spam is like weeds; it continues to exist even when you think you've eradicated it.
- Make sure to check your behaviour -- a lot of spam happens because of what people do, where they post, etc.
- Have more than one email account.
