How do you stop junk email?

[HEYBOSS]

How do you do it? Man by the time i leave tdr site I'll have 4-5 emails on junk garbage I don't care. Every time I open my email must have at least 10 mails junk. What do you do, reply with a nasty answer and tell them to stick it you know where? It can be frustrating, there must be a way



Thanks as always for your help,



Fred. (not clowning today just pissed)

 

[Joe G.]

Fred,



For some e-mails you can filter out. The problem is that most junk e-mail senders have figured out how to avoid the filters so that doesn't work. Don't let them get to you. Just hit the delete key and forget about it. It's like junk mail in your regular mail box, just throw them in the trash without reading.

 

[illflem]

Some e-mail services have filters that screen out the junk, find one. Many of the e-mail servers will also forward your mail to another so you can run it though a filter without changing your address. Responding back to some of the junk mail can be worse than just deleting it unread, they will know they have an active address and your address will be passed on to other advertisers. I use excite e-mail, forwarded to eathlink sometimes when I have a rash of junk mail I'll go back to excite to find that their filter is temporarly down, it must work.

 

[HEYBOSS]

Well that's what I do, just hit the delete button. I don't even bother opening any after a while it's always the same people that keep sending it, I just taught there was an easy way to avoid it. Thanks for reply.



Fred.

 

[chuck3]

Hey Boss, You can block it by going to messages and click on block sender. no more from them.

 

[Scot]

Why don't one of you computer gee-whizzes write a little program to where we can drag the junk mail into a folder and then send the entire contents back to the sender. Kind of a reverse-spam.

 

[Bigsaint]

Fred, if your using Outlook Express, here's what to to. Click on 'Tools' and then on 'Message Rules'. From here the skys the limit. You can delete it or stop it from being sent, if you set the message rules up properly. You can also block the sender, by opening the mail, clicking 'Message' and then 'block sender'. This works for some mail, but the above message rules keep my inbox cleaner than using the block sender alone.



Scott W.

 

[dmurdock]

Here's a good tip

Might be to late for some of you, but I ALWAYS have at least one e-mail account used exclusively for registering at sites (like this one), ordering stuff, etc... . This is basically my "junk" identity, I don't worry about giving it out because that's what I made it for. I have another account which friends/family use to get in touch with me. Check with your isp, most offer multiple accounts for free... if not, you can get a hotmail account for free.

 

[Joe G.]

Block sender and filters don't work because the senders change their id all the time. In fact, it's generated at send time. Some e-mail providers may have a better filter, but the normal browser filter doesn't help much.

 

[Chad Sheets]

As long as it doesnt have any powder on it, I dont care. I'll just hit the red X and be done with it.

 

[JConley]

Change the profile settings in your e-mail program so you advertise a bogus address. For instance, on Internet Explorer, just visiting a website is enough for the site to grab your profile and start sending you mail. If you use Outlook Express and post to newsgroups, place a few XXX's in the address so you dont advertise a good address.

 

[illflem]

Or download the new IE 6. 0. It allows you to select which sites can read your cookies. When you get on site that tries to read them an icon pops up on your tool bar that you can click to see who's reading you. I've been on sites that have as many as six different entities trying to read me, all of them blocked. Good deal for free.

 

[The patriot]

I have IE 6. 0, and I like the privacy feature.

Also, I stopped (well almost... . ) visiting the girlie sights.

Plenty of junk mail from those places... if ya know what I mean.

Eric

 

[HEYBOSS]

You guys are great

Hey thanks for all the replies and the good tips. I have Outlook Express and IE and also I think I have an extra mail address, between all these options i should be able to do something.

You know I'm not one of those computer guru, I'm little slow but I must admit I'm so good a it that I only use one finger when hitting the key board so it will take me a little while to figure how these programs work.





Thanks so much, TDR is great.



Fred.