New Hotmail filters most spam

RawAlex · 2003-10-23, 01:40 PM

The new hotmail (due shortly, they are promoting it) will now only show messages from people on your contact list as your "new mail". everything else will be in some sort of inside folder, with a one button "dump".

Basically, if you make you living mailing to hotmail users, you might want to start asking them to make you part of their contact lists, or you will be lost in the spam.

Also, they are adding additional Yahoo style "report spam" systems that will allow them to start marking stuff off as spam. Again, this means that if enough people mark you newsletter / ezine / whatever as spam, it will likely get filtered, even if users have requested your contact and information.

Just another twist in the story, I guess.

Alex

2003-10-23, 02:25 PM

You know, it's a double edged sword. I hate spam and spend a good deal of time in the morning having to sort through it. One legit email can get thrown in to my spam filter and I need to make sure that it gets answered, so even though I have my spam redirected into a special folder, I still have to go through it all...

But the other side of it is that people may use the one touch spam elimination feature of the new hotmail and possibly miss emails from old friends who have tracked them down, newsletters that they have signed up for and all sorts of things. Plus, we have a newsletter that is completely voluntary, is very easy to get taken off of (type remove in the subject line and hit return) and STILL we get reported to spam companies. It's like walking a tightrope sometimes. How does everyone else handle it?

Surfn · 2003-10-23, 04:56 PM

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Originally posted by Ounique
How does everyone else handle it?

I use a

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2003-10-23, 05:17 PM

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Originally posted by Surfn
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2003-10-23, 01:40 PM	#1
RawAlex Took the hint. Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,597	New Hotmail filters most spam The new hotmail (due shortly, they are promoting it) will now only show messages from people on your contact list as your "new mail". everything else will be in some sort of inside folder, with a one button "dump". Basically, if you make you living mailing to hotmail users, you might want to start asking them to make you part of their contact lists, or you will be lost in the spam. Also, they are adding additional Yahoo style "report spam" systems that will allow them to start marking stuff off as spam. Again, this means that if enough people mark you newsletter / ezine / whatever as spam, it will likely get filtered, even if users have requested your contact and information. Just another twist in the story, I guess. Alex

2003-10-23, 02:25 PM	#2
Ounique Guest Posts: n/a	You know, it's a double edged sword. I hate spam and spend a good deal of time in the morning having to sort through it. One legit email can get thrown in to my spam filter and I need to make sure that it gets answered, so even though I have my spam redirected into a special folder, I still have to go through it all... But the other side of it is that people may use the one touch spam elimination feature of the new hotmail and possibly miss emails from old friends who have tracked them down, newsletters that they have signed up for and all sorts of things. Plus, we have a newsletter that is completely voluntary, is very easy to get taken off of (type remove in the subject line and hit return) and STILL we get reported to spam companies. It's like walking a tightrope sometimes. How does everyone else handle it?