Junk e-mail

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Wendy

I made the mistake of showing my e-mail address in one of
my posts. Now everyday my e-mail is filled with junk!
What can I do to stop this?
 
Get a new e-mail address..

----- Wendy wrote: ----

I made the mistake of showing my e-mail address in one of
my posts. Now everyday my e-mail is filled with junk!
What can I do to stop this
 
Hehe. In the future, you may wish to write your address
out in the body of your post, ie:
kmcclement at precisiondrilling dot com, or add some
extra characters to your address, but make sure to tell
us that you did in case someone tries to contact you.
also, as others have said in the past, please don't leave
those fields totally blank, it's harder to search your
own stuff, and it's less interesting for others to help
you out.
HTH
Kevin M
 
Wendy,

Here are some very good spam software filters.

1) Spamnet (www.cloudmark.com) the one that I use. This is a community of
about 800,000 spamfighters that help one another by culling out the spam. I
very much like this product.

2) Mailwasher....see notes at David McRitchie's site....
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/mailwasher.htm

3) ChoiceMail (favorite of Walt Mossberg, technology writer for Wall Street
Journal)
see site at www.digiportal.com. See article at
http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20020711.html .

4) Another strong recommendation from Mossberg is MailFrontier
(www.mailfrontier.com). See article...
http://www.smartmoney.com/mossberg/index.cfm?story=april03

As you can see, there are several alternatives, and each person has his or
her own reason for preferring one solution over another.

Good luck.

Regards,
Kevin
 
I use mailwasher which I find superior to spamnet which I beta tested,
mailwasher deletes
from the server so you don't have to download it..
 
I use mailwasher which I find superior to spamnet which I beta tested,
mailwasher deletes from the server so you don't have to download it..
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If so, doesn't that mean that one's ISP's incoming mail server needs to support
it?
 
Harlan Grove said:
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If so, doesn't that mean that one's ISP's incoming mail server needs to support
it?

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The free version only supports POP3 but the pro version supports Hotmail,
MSN, IMAP and AOL.
I have the pro version, here are some quotes

"MailWasher works directly with your email server, exactly like your email
program does. But there is one important difference: you can tell MailWasher
to delete a message at the server, without downloading it - or you can
bounce an email back to the sender so that it looks as though your address
is not valid.

MailWasher retrieves information about all the emails on the server. With
that information (some of which is also processed by MailWasher) you can
decide what to do with each individual email - download, delete, or bounce
back.

If you check your account with MailWasher first, you can delete or bounce
the emails you do not want. Then, when you use your email program, it
downloads only the remaining emails, those that you want to read."

Once you have dragged the emails to a friendly list (or if you use a filter
list) those emails will be hidden. Of course if you have a naive friend who
opens a worm email it can't protect you from that but the latest Outlook has
had a big face lift and
tweaking these 2 together can save you a lot of time..

I don't think there is such a thing as the perfect spam blocker unless you
have a very dedicated person that runs the mailserver at your ISP. Spammers
deserve the worst.. Here is a story that made me happy when I first read it,
someone taking revenge on a spammer by hacking the spammer's computer

http://belps.freewebsites.com/index2.htm
 
Peo,

I always want the opportunity to double check to make sure that deemed spam
is in fact spam. I get very few false positives and very little actual
spam. So I am a happy camper.

I am using the latest version and really enjoy Spamnet. It is not rules
based, which I like very much.

But people have their own favorites for their own reasons. And the
important part is that there are lots of good solutions to choose from.

A good site for learning more about spammers is http://www.spamhaus.org .
Here is an article in the NY Times about spamhaus.org
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/business/yourmoney/09spam.html . NY Times
requires registration but no fees to view the article within 30 days.

If only there were no spam. :-)

Best regards,
Kevin
 
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