Bigfoot's got the Stink Foot

I found a "review" site when I did a Google search for "Bigfoot mail spam review". I've had problems for years, and guess I am not the only one. Bigfoot has, finally(!), outlived it's usefulness. I posted the original review on the xomreviews.com site. I wanted to get the word out further... (Plus I edited some typos and grammar mistakes...)

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Bigfoot's got the Stink Foot

I stumbled upon this site after many, many months of issues with Bigfoot. I thought, "hey, maybe it's not just me..." Sure enough, many other reviews here mirror my experience and sentiment.

I've subscribed to Bigfoot premium for many years. I had decent service at first, that has deteriorated over the years. For more than a year now, I've continued to pay the premium subscription fees (it auto-renews) and then start complaining.

My biggest issue is the almost 10:1 spam to "good" email ratio. I've continued to tune, check settings, attempting to filter and blacklist, all to seeming no avail. I've complained in the past, and over almost two years ago started charting the spam that gets through, versus the ones that are trapped. The statistics are amazing!

I resorted to using SpamAssassin and SpamSieve to filter the "junk" that gets through Bigfoot's filters. I started distributing Bigfoot mail to Gmail and Hotmail. Gmail catches 100% (with no false positives in several months of use). Even my Hotmail account, which collects it's own goodly portion of spam itself, and has caught the spam that is forwarded from Bigfoot. If those guys can do it with such success, why can't Bigfoot make even a half-hearted attempt at improving their filtering, using just free open source tools?!?!

Makes me think one of Bigfoot's side businesses is the "processing" of spam, and selling addresses to the spammers...

I guess with this review, I have *finally* talked myself in to canceling the account and ending the drain of money to support this service.

Appreciate some of the suggestions of others I have seen here, such as pobox.com, etc.

Good luck, from a long since satisfied Bigfoot customer. RIP...