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Posted by Joan797 on May 2, 2006, at 8:19:54
397 E-Mails arrived at my computer's doorstep this morning after loading a new version of Norton Anit-Virus....which by the way was supposed to be the entire Norton Internet Securiy Program that I paid for but wasn't. Can't freaking activate the program but got my e mails this morning. All 397 were junk mail. How lovely. I was in a panic because I thought I might be missing something. Pathetic. Pathetic, yet enlightening and reality revealing all at the same time.
Posted by deirdrehbrt on May 2, 2006, at 14:05:33
In reply to E-Mail, posted by Joan797 on May 2, 2006, at 8:19:54
Depending on your ISP, there are a couple of ways to deal with junk-mail. I use Mozilla Thunderbird for my e-mail program which has a trainable junk-mail folder. It allows you to specify an e-mail as junk, and you can then send it to a junk mail folder. During the training, it shows junk-mail with a junk icon next to it. If you click on it you can select junk or not. After it is trained, it will put the junk mail automatically in the junk folder. I then occasionally browse the junk folder and click "not junk" if an erroneous e-mail was sent there. After training, it's remarkably good at sorting, and I just add new junk-mails to the list.
Mozilla Thunderbird is free and available for many platforms.The second method of eliminating junk-mail is to go to your e-mail account from your ISP. Some of these have controls for which you can add the source address of your more numerous e-mails, and it will bounce them back to the sender. Some have better controls than others.
Most spammers consider their attempt successful if the e-mail did not bounce, and will then sell valid addresses. For these, setting your ISP controls helps reduce the overall bandwidth used by these creeps.
Hope this helps.
--BB, --Dee
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