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Why is Hotmail so bad at spam?

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Carol Haynes:
It's not just Hotmail - Yahoo spam filtering used to work quite well - and it is supposed be to be learning your preferences. Recently it has been utterly crap - it doesn't matter how many time I report the same message it still goes to my filtered folders and not the junk folder.

Part of the problem is if you look in the headers often the senders address is spoofed (I often have them coming from my own email addresses and/or domains) and consequently do get past as a known address (even though superficially it looks like they come from a spam source).

I think the time is coming when all email addresses (like domains) will have to be registered with a proof of identity and made spoof proof by some sort of certification process. If that were the case ISPs could simply block emails from sources that are unregistered or where the registartion and certification don't match.

Laughing Man:
I've had an opposite experience lol. Yahoo use to be horrible with spam (I cranked it up to max though) and I get almost no junk mail now. Hotmail on the other hand I have to rely on TB's junk filters I setup.

Darwin:
I've started seeing cracks in the dyke too - Yahoo used to be BRILLIANT at filtering my e-mail but recently it's been letting some blatantly obviousl spam through - not much - most of it is still landing in my junk mail folder - but enough to make me thing that things are starting to degrade...

Carol Haynes:
I reckon to get at least 150-200 junk emails a day via Yahoo mail - and it is supposed to be filtered. Probably about 60 end up in the junk mail folder the rest scattered through my other folders. It isn't as though it isn't obvious junk either - most is for viagra and variants or just plain porn.

I am systematically swapping all my subscription email addressed using Yahoo's AddressGuard - at least then I should be able to tell how my emails are escaping to the spammers - but it is a long winded process and I am not sure I am too happy putting all my eggs into the Yahoo basket. If at some point in the future I want to change provider it will be a massive job to change all my subscription emails again, and if they change the options available (hopefully this shouldn't impact on current users but you never know with potential Yahoo buyouts on the table) I could equally be hit.

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