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Comment from Bill on 2007-05-08

2007-05-08T19:52:07Z

This is actually not quite true. Hotmail has a service for Email Marketers called Junk Mail Reporting Program (http://postmaster.live.com/Services.aspx#JMRPP). Every person that clicks "This is Spam" on an email gets sent to me so I can remove users from our list. We have an opt in list and you would be amazed how many people click "This is Spam" when they asked to receive it.

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Comment from Greg on 2007-04-28

2007-04-28T21:24:52Z

As Leo pointed out, the "spam" button doesn't automatically unsubscribe you, automatically block mail from that sender, or create an exclusion rule based on that e-mail. So marking something as spam doesn't stop you from getting spams from that same spammer or similar types of spam from other spammers. It just puts it in a "reported as spam" pool that your mail provider can use for reference in its spam blocking efforts.

If you want off of a mailing list you signed up for, like Leo's... unsubscribe.

If you're getting unsolicited messages, create a filter that uses either the sender's e-mail address (if they use the same one regularly) or a key phrase they use in their mail regularly (such as "interest rates" or "pre-approved") to catch the mail and toss it in your junk folder instead of getting into your main mailbox.

Perhaps Leo's next article should be about setting up filters in Hotmail. :-)

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Comment from Bill Dawson on 2007-04-28

2007-04-28T16:18:51Z

I get ads from some watch companies, I guess because I was researching watches a couple of years ago. Same thing with interest rates. I mark them as spam, but they keep coming back.
How do I stop these things?

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Comment from Fred on 2007-04-27

2007-04-28T04:29:55Z

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Gmail's filter individually trainable? i.e. things you reported spam are immediately blocked from your account.

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