Unsolicited porn

[differenceblog]

Grimes et al (2007) expected to find gender differences in attitudes towards unsolicited advertising emails, or spam. The survey actually found much greater differences based on age than gender, although men were more likely to report having received sexual and financial spam than women, and tended to rate their computer expertise higher. Older

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[astrogeek01]

Is there a difference between porn-spam and sexually-related-spam? Like, ViaGRA!LOLZ! or ... hm, no, lots of the others I get are probably porn-spam. I'd know if I opened them, but I don't.

[differenceblog]

Yeah, I believe "viagra" spam is classified as "health" spam, which was a different category.

[differenceblog]

They certainly are more confident -- they reported that they were better at it.

Seriously, does NO spam get past your filters? I know I set my spam filter threshold pretty low, but I get a lot of spam in both my work and personal inboxes. I keep the threshold low because I know that I never check the "spam" folder to make sure I am not tossing stuff I want.

meh. Spam doesn't bother me that much.

[deadkytty9]

Almost none does. I get about 2-3 spam per day that make it past the filter in my yahoo account, but it's also 10 years old. I get no spam at all in my gmail and school accounts.

Are you sure you don't have enemies who're signing you up for porn mailing lists? ;)

[astrogeek01]

I get almost no spam that actually makes it into my inbox. And, I get almost no non-spam that winds its way into the spam folder. I do skim my folders at least once every couple of days before I delete just to make sure. I try to skim it before it gets to 100 messages because more than that it's easy to miss something. But, in the last probably year, I think only 2 messages that weren't spam got filtered into the spam folder, with the exception at the University which has such stupid rules as "If it comes from yahoo or hotmail, it's spam" that I cannot change/train out of the system.

[differenceblog]

So, NoFauxx and On Our Backs should spam more... just to keep up.

[differenceblog]

Bloody hell. Is it "On Our Backs" or "Off Our Backs" ? Google is turning up hits for both that look right, and I was never that into it, so now I can't remember which it is.