If you use Outlook then try out cloudmark's spamnet service at www.spamnet.com. It's about 4 bucks a month and works VERY well.
You hit send/receive and almost all the spam goes in a spam folder.
The way it works is that when you get a spam message you click the "block" button - which registers that message (anonymously) with SpamNet. Then anyone else who downloads that message will have it sent to their spam folder.
Pretty ingenious, really, and works like a charm!
-------------------- Best Regards, Mark Smith EstiMate Sign Pricing Software It's Not Luck. It's EstiMate.™ http://www.EstiMateSoftware.com 1-888-304-3300 Posts: 724 | From: Asheville, NC, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Set their (your email provider) filters so that only email with your secrete code in the subject line gets thru.
Dotn set your local email util filters to tight. Let them (yoru email server) do all the filtering
For example. All email goes to the junk folder. Then I scan thru it to find the good stuff. Then send the good stuff to the ok floder or put them on the receive list. After a while all your ppl that should be sending you email will get thru. Everything else goes to junk or deleted automatically. My personal email never has spam any more..
Also, set up a email address with some very strange name in it. That way a brute force email address maker won't brute force your name combination. For example. My private addres is paks12. It never has spam.
My public email address has tons of spam. Once we were testing and made up a new email address and never used it on a public email server. It took just 8 days for a brute force email address maker to get us.. and the new one never used started to have 60 a day. sheesh
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My local internet service provider captures all suspect spam and virus infected messages. I am informed daily via e-mail. I cal read all messages without risk. Also have had to tweak the filters, but for the most part I just remove them all with one click.
As a mac user I am not too worried about viruses, but all this junk mail is just crazy. Who generates all that stuff?
-------------------- Curt Stenz Graphics 700 Squirrel Lane Marathon, WI 54448 Posts: 592 | From: Marathon, WI 54448 | Registered: Dec 1998
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Robert..ya ever tried it sliced kinda thin and FRIED?? Sandwich it between two slices of bread..and LOTS of Ketchup!! Yummmy
I DO love it that way.
Next best thing is fried balogna sandwiches!!!
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
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Years back, Donna Williams posted about a freebie program called "eremove.exe" and I've been using it with sucess. I can look at all the headers on my server and delete them and download the ones that I want. I don't think some auto spam blocker can make my choices for me, I need to see what's there.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6731 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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my server provides online e-mail, I just pull it up there, toggle all my emails to be checked for deletion, pass through the headers and click on the ones I want to keep then delete the rest takes about a minute or two. then I go to my regular netscape e-mail and download what is left and read it usually about two or three e-mails out of 40 or so. Bill
-------------------- Bill & Barbara Biggs Art's Sign Service, Inc. Clute, Texas, USA Home of The Great Texas Mosquito Festival Proud 10 year Supporter of the Letterheads Website www.artssigns.com "MrBill-" on the chat page MailTo:biggsbb@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1020 | From: Lake Jackson,Tx | Registered: Nov 1998
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Sorry ...couldn't resist...absolute cure is...change your e-mail and never...never go to a medical site or sex site...not that you would ;)mind you...(I'm going on heresay)that these are the two areas that are responsible for more spam than anyone can eat.
I once went looking for "coconuts" and locked on to a porn site I couldn't get off of without shutting down the computer...I got so much spam from that one wrong turn...I could hardly use e-mail...we changed servers (thus e-mail) and all that went away
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I still use Eremove, however a new one we started using is MailWasher.
It displays a list of incoming emails, and automatically checks off all emails as spam unless you uncheck one, then right click to accept it as an addition to your friendly list. That accepted email will then always come up as a good one, with the bad ones still checked.
Abit more automatic than Eremove, however you have to be careful to go through the list for new emails that you would normally accept or they'll get deleted.
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The newsgroup alt.spam has been the single most-useful thing to me.
One of severel defenses I learned was to disable "cookies stored in your computer." Of course I have to enable it for Letterhead and a few other valuable sites. But if I'm only surfing and a site requires cookies, too bad. Ain't worth the risk.
My ISP offers MailBlock, and I suppose there are other brands that won't download from known spam hosts. On top of that, you develop your own list of rogue ISPs and and subject-line words, and those get dumped too. Last week 100-some spams got blocked, and 1 or 2 got thru. Those were immediately reported to SpamCop.
-------------------- Bruce Williams Lexington KY Posts: 945 | From: Lexington, KY, USA | Registered: Mar 1999
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