Do you fight SPAMs?

Chennai, India
August 6, 2010 10:47pm CST
I am promoting my business on various sources. So, every now and then I receive a SPAM from an unknown marketer. I usually tolerate once or twice and report if it continues. I have the 'block sender' utility in my email software. So, I will block them. Even then, if I notice emails from the same sender repeatedly, I never fail to report. And most of the sites reply me saying that the user has been banned. My question is, how will you react if you receive a SPAM? Will you ignore or will you report it?
3 responses
• Pakistan
7 Aug 10
SPAMs are the kind of things all of us are facing on the Internet. As for as dealing with it is concerned, everyone has it's own ways. As for myself, I prefer ignoring SPAMs as long as it is not extremely abusive. Deleting SPAMs take less time than reporting it. If you report every SPAM, you are yourself giving importance to a junk. I recommend you not to get allergic of SPAMs, but simply delete them. Good luck.
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
9 Aug 10
Spams are frustrating, but my filter is good and any spam that I get most certainly goes to the Spam filter. Having a good SPAM filter is something that is just a secret to survival in the Internet world these days. Otherwise, you will spend a lot of time and energy going through the e-mail, to ensure that you don't delete anything important. When it goes to the SPAM filter, it will be deleted right away. Still, if it becomes a problem, I might have to report it. A couple of times, it might be an isolated incident and perhaps not technically SPAM. However, many times, then they are in fact spamming you. Still, it is really a case by case basis, and if the spam filter catches it, then its good and I do not have to deal with anything much.
@krajibg (11923)
• Guwahati, India
7 Aug 10
Hi venkataraman, My email inboxes both the gmail and yahoo are fool of spams. I keep on receiving them. If got enough to move them I do so but most of them are lying there like that. I have never reported any spammer. He/she gets bored and stops mailing anymore. But you have really brought the issue that has ignited my imagination.