Sep 22 2008
Question: How Long Before I Get Spam?
Been seeing a lot of people talking about changing their email address to get away from the spam.
They wonder how long before they are going to have to change it again.
There is no set rule on how long it will take to get spam again. This depends on how you use your email address.
Obviously, if you never give it out to anyone you are going to have a pretty clean box. If you only give it to a few friends you trust (and tell them never to give it out) then you are probably ok.
As soon as you start buying stuff on-line, signing up for e-newsletters or put your address up on any webpage (your site, your social network identity, etc.) that is when you start opening yourself up to spam. You can see my other blog post on How Did the Spammer Get My Address? which goes over this in more detail.
So, there is no answer to that question really. It depends on your activities.
Now for the usual part (considering this is an email spam filtering company’s blog) you should just get a great filter that stops the spam from ever reaching you and you don’t have to worry about that. Of course, that means you need to check out ours here.
