While I personally don’t care when I see a subject line that would send the elderly into shock, it makes me curious. What do people who have little kids do? I haven’t researched parental filters or anything (I don’t have kids) but do parental filters and the like take care of all this stuff? I can’t see how it would be 100%
I can’t imagine having to explain some of the subject lines i get to younglings
How young are you asking about?
NC-17
OOO, that’s me!!!
My kid will never know what those words mean!!
:o
I did have to make mine plain text format for a while because some spam was embedding prono images. Really gross to download email and have that stuff just show up in full color glory.
Those seemed to stop after a few months go.
You can eliminate the subject column in outlook and outloox express, that would fix it. Right click on the colums and select the ones that you want shown
I don’t see what the big deal is, just explain to them what the word means, and if they don’t understand, tell them you’ll explain again when they’re older.
Porn addicts are born from the womb of parental apathy and overprotectiveness.
true. but when the subject line contains ‘brutal’ ‘rape’ and ‘toilet’ like i’ve been getting…
Brutal rape toilet?
Tell kids it’s a metaphor for Lisa Frank ponies.
dear dudewithasock. i got an email that said ‘Lisa Frank ponies’
That’s dirty.
Oh, I thought you said NCC-1701, which is something else to explain to young ones.
I checked an old Yahoo account about a week ago…whew…that had SOO much spam. I don’t get any with Gmail, but I do sometimes get strange emails with nothing but images of text that recommend ideas regarding my participation in stocks…
the spam i get is mostly from ebay scammers. if you don’t like being ripped off, ignore any ebay message that says “2nd chance offer”.
My Yahoo! account gets no spam
My Gmail account gets no spam
I have two odd-ball Hotmail accounts that get no spam
It all depends on how publicly known your address is. My Yahoo! account is used for a MTB mailing list. My Gmail account is used primarily for another mailing list. The two extra Hotmail accounts are just random that I have for cases when I don’t want to give out my main address.
The Hotmail account in my sig does get spam, but it’s also publicly known.
So you can have a mail account that doesn’t get spam, but you have to protect the address. Whether Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail, or other does a better job depends in great part to how and where you make your address known.
I report particularly unpleasant looking spam to the Virtual Global Taskforce (http://www.virtualglobaltaskforce.com/). In the UK there’s also the Internet Watch Foundation (http://www.iwf.org.uk/), there’s probably an equivalent organisation in Canada that a bit of Googling might find for you (or you could ask the Virtual Global Taskforce if they know who you should contact in your area, or see if it’s on their webpage).
I report spam that looks illegal / abusive to these folks when I get the chance - it has the dual benefits of potentially preventing further crimes, and also potentially getting spammers arrested and therefore cleaning up my inbox 
It feels good to be able to do something to maybe stop the production / distribution of abusive porno, and I’d recommend doing so to others.
I actually eliminated a lot of spam by unsubscribing from a couple of mailing lists that I used to read, but now have too much spam traffic. Keeping your e-mail list concealed online helps avoid spams too.
Other spams can usefully be cleared out by a spam filter. Whilst not 100% accurate, they can use quite sophisticated reasoning - including checking for known patterns, and machine learning techniques - to remove spam e-mails. It’s still worth occasionally checking the spam folder for false positives, though.
The answer I’d suggest for people with young children is either to try to find an e-mail account for them which gets less spam, or supervise use of e-mails somewhat - but I think it’s important not to poke in their private affairs if you go the latter route. My Dad still reads my e-mails over my shoulders when I go to visit him - it’s annoying
HTML e-mails are widely disliked for a number of reasons, one of which is the ability to embed arbitrary images. A decent e-mail client ought to be able to ask you if you want to display the images, rather than showing them by default - for instance, Mozilla Thunderbird might do this, but I’ve never checked.
If you’re stuck with another e-mail client (I seem to recall you using Outlook) you could take a look through the settings to find a way to restrict the display of images in e-mails, or you might be able to find a 3rd party tool to help you do that.
I’ve never actually received any spam with porno images in, but I know they used to be fairly common. I guess the shift happened because large images are easily detected and restricted by e-mail providers, so it’s no longer practical to send them in spam.
That’s called spam.
That and the canned meat.
i used to think spam was a rude word and wouldnt say it…ever 
This is the best solution if you can control usage of your email address, and have other addresses for online registrations and things. But then those other addresses will be rife with spam, and if you ever have to look at them you sort of have the same problem.
My current preferred solution is OnlyMyEmail.com. for $3 per month, 99% of my spam gets filtered to where I don’t have to even look at it if I don’t want. But I do, because there are occasional false-positives in there. I could eliminate most of those but I like to stay open to random emails from around the world because a lot of people contact me about unicycling.
Currently I average about 190 spams per day, with an average of less than one per day getting through. And less than one false positive per week. To me, that $3 is cheap!
If you don’t want to give up “your” email address, fight that spam! Also make sure your email address isn’t listed online anywhere. No mailto links on web pages, don’t spell it out on online forums, etc. OUCH! Just did a Google search on my own email address. First two links were from PDFs (MUni Weekend registration forms) that have it on them. Now you can search PDFs? Another place to watch out for email addresses. Unfortunately mine is on old and archived forums and mailing lists from years gone by, and I don’t know that there’s any way to eliminate those.