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Only 80 a day, and all from the far east I expect, over the weekend my monday morning mail box has around 240 emails in it /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

If you use Outlook, set up some auto - deletion rules esspecially if you get the same message of sender.

Peter

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Although this won't stop you getting junk mailed, it helps the problem a bit. When you get an e mail you don't want - right click on address of e mail, select block sender from the menu that appears, and left click it. Any other mail from that sender will go straight into your deleted box. If you set your deleted box to empty when you switch off machine, you will not see the spam etc. Roy

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If you use Outlook, don't bother setting up your own rules, get SpamBayes. It's fantastic, and free - . At first, you move lots of junk to a folder, point SpamBayes at it and it works out what you think is spam. You also point it at a folder of 'good' messages and it learns about that too.

From then on, it moves stuff to a junk folder if it's sure, or a 'junk suspects' folder. If anything slips through (or goes to the wrong place) you tell it and it learns.

I still get lots of spam, but I only end up with 1 in 20 in my inbox.

download it from here: <A target="_blank" HREF=http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/>http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/</A>

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Yes message rules in the options box are an excellent way of filtering out the sh*te, another tip is if you see the message in an unwanted email that reads "click here to unsubscribe" or "click to be removed from mailing list" DON'T!
it removes nothing it only validates your email addy for the spammers.

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cheers for this, look worth a go

Peter

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when i sign up to anything, if i dont know the company, i set up another email address (takes few seconds) so once ive got the info i want i never go to it again and if that email is passed on all the spam goes to that address and i never bother going back to it anyway, keeping my real email address private. the motto being the less emails you send out the less spam you seem to get back in, thats what ive found.
Atleast then when i go to my emails i know they will be from people i actually want to hear from and not kn*****ds trying to palm sh*te off to me.

kevin
 
this is a great site for temporary emails
<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.spamhole.com/>http://www.spamhole.com/</A>

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cheers Brendan ill go have a look, normally I use yahoo or something.

kevin

P.s just been to have a quick look only concern if i have to put my real email in somewhere so my spamhole mail can be forwarded on then I might still be open to spam to my real one from spamhole company.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by Kevin on 27/02/2004 15:25 (server time).</FONT></P>
 
they come highly recommended. Sunday Times recommended them some while back, and get good reviews generally. There's an article about them by New York TImes on the site. I've used them for ages with no problems. You stand the same chance with Yahoo etc., this is just a much quicker way of setting up temp emails.

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Thanks for that Brendan, had heard of the temporary addresses but never sort of got lubricated to find them - will do so now that you have made it easy.

A question - don't your ISP's over there run spam filters on their mail servers? Our ISP's spam filter is almost imprenetrable (or however it is spelt /forums/images/icons/frown.gif). We have several addresses which are easily randomly generated by spammers and was getting a bit irritated by the stuff.

But then, when some time back the ISP stated they were going to filter spam I was more than a bit sceptical about how good it would be. However, after checking everything it tagged as spam for around 4 months I found that it had never ever tagged a legitimate email so from then on I just let it delete what it thinks is spam back at the mail server and have never suspected that it may have deleted a legitimate message. It lets very, very few through and I don't even seem to get many of the current crop of disguised spam - maybe one every second day or so.

John

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