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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / November 2005OTP Tired of useless e-mail
I just received my messages that have accumulated in the last 2 hours and there are 154 of them. I doubt if 6 or 8 of them are actually anything that I need to read. I've heard not to try to remove posters since that just verifies your address. What do all of you do? I am so tired of this. Gwen >I just received my messages that have accumulated in the last 2 hours and >there are 154 of them. I doubt if 6 or 8 of them are actually anything >that I need to read. I've heard not to try to remove posters since that >just verifies your address. What do all of you do? I am so tired of this. > Gwen Gwen, I switched over 2 years ago to having an email addy for newsgroups only. I set it up without a reply to addy and haven't had any spam since. I only give my proper email addy to friends, so that helps too.. Janet >I just received my messages that have accumulated in the last 2 hours and >there are 154 of them. I doubt if 6 or 8 of them are actually anything >that I need to read. I've heard not to try to remove posters since that >just verifies your address. What do all of you do? I am so tired of this. > Gwen I have three email addresses that I check, a family and friends one that I check several times a day. A hotmail one I always give out for commercial use. Bank and credit cards and sign up type stuff. It gets checked every few days and mostly deleted after a quick glance at the message sources. And a netzero one I use for newsgroups. I check it once in a while as it gets a humongous amount of spam. Once in a while it does get a message from an internet friend and then I send them the address I check. I do block senders on the family and friends address as well and a few choice words. Jo >I just received my messages that have accumulated in the last 2 hours and >there are 154 of them. I doubt if 6 or 8 of them are actually anything that >I need to read. I've heard not to try to remove posters since that just >verifies your address. What do all of you do? I am so tired of this. >Gwen I am slowly switching all my e-mail over to gmail. The spam filters on Gmail are excellent. I get almost no spam in my inbox it goes into the spam folder which is automatically emptied weekly. The account is free and you get tremendous space, almost 2.6 gb of web/server space. Huge! I am sure it is much more space than your ISP provides. You can set it up to download into outlook and you can copy your outlook address book into it. It is also free! Great deal and your e-mails are automatically threaded. Just sign up for an account and let everyone know your new e-mail. http://mail.google.com/mail/ Visit my website: http://www.mzuschlag.com I have just one! and I belong to several eloops which I am interested. I still delete most of my mail without reading it. If the subject line or sender don't catch my attention it is gone! I never respond to anyone I don't know. I do have really good spam stuff. Vickie B. > I get almost no spam in my inbox it goes into >the spam folder which is automatically emptied weekly. In fact, I receive much less spam in Gmail (1 spam in about 2 weeks) then my regular comcast account, and I use gmail for this newsgroup. Now that Google does not publish full e-mail address in google groups it should be less likely to have your e-mail picked up by a spam bot. Visit my website: http://www.mzuschlag.com I haven't gotten spam in six months, since I munged my addy. It looks like a random collection of characters so spambots think its spam and it never gets picked up. Of course, I had to let my friends of the change. Even my email newsletters haven't produced any spam since the change. Nice. ymmv of course. skip >> I get almost no spam in my inbox it goes into >>the spam folder which is automatically emptied weekly. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Visit my website: > http://www.mzuschlag.com I also use a fake address for my newsgroup...I started doing this a long time ago... I have 2 email addresses that I use regulary...My SBC Browser is very good at sifting through the spam....I do check the spam folder though as sometimes it puts messages from my friends in there...I scan it and then empty it... Cindy >I just received my messages that have accumulated in the last 2 hours and >there are 154 of them. I doubt if 6 or 8 of them are actually anything >that I need to read. I've heard not to try to remove posters since that >just verifies your address. What do all of you do? I am so tired of this. > Gwen Gwen, have you checked with your provider? They may offer some spam blocking at the server. If not there are free programs such as SpamPal which will put spam in a separate folder. Cooly > I just received my messages that have accumulated in the last 2 hours and > there are 154 of them. I doubt if 6 or 8 of them are actually anything that > I need to read. I've heard not to try to remove posters since that just > verifies your address. What do all of you do? I am so tired of this. > Gwen thank all of you for your suggestions. Now I just have to decide which I am going to do. Gwen > Gwen, have you checked with your provider? They may offer some spam > blocking at the server. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> this. >> Gwen I use Mailwasher. You can check what's on your server before it comes down to your computer and delete or bounce anything you don't want. It's available at http://www.firetrust.com Carole > Gwen, have you checked with your provider? They may offer some spam > blocking at the server. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> so tired of this. >> Gwen |
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