Author Topic: Spam blocker recommendations please (Read 277 times)

Steve · « **on:** April 04, 2004, 01:48:46 AM »

I am getting all sorts of junk emails...for any of you that read this and have experience w/ spam blockers, any advise would be much appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Steve

beet1e · « **Reply #1 on:** April 04, 2004, 07:37:18 AM »

Steve - consider starting a Yahoo! email account. I have several, but you can still use an email client like Outlook to retrieve mail off the POP3 mail server. Yahoo has a facility called SpamGuard, and automatically gets rid of a lot of spam. That would happen before your email client even saw it. In addition, you can create up to 15 filters. I have one I created which puts any email containing the word "Africa" into a "possible junk" folder - gets rid of all those bank scams from Nigeria. You could create a filter - anything containing "Beet1e" could be directed to a "Effeminate Poofter" folder. Filtering mail is an asynchronous process - you don't have to wait while your email client downloads a big message only to place it in the Deleted Items folder.

Get a firewall like Zone Alarm Pro or, better still get PC-Cillin from http://www.pccillin.com which is a combined virus checker and personal firewall.

I have done all the above and now I hardly get any spam at all. Plus I'm fully protected against viruses and hacking attempts!

Regards,
E.P.

EasyMode!

eskimo2 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 04, 2004, 08:16:26 AM »

Only people with erectile disfunction get spam.

eskimo

MrCoffee · « **Reply #3 on:** April 04, 2004, 02:12:52 PM »

When will the spam advertisers realise that people are not interested. Spam is the worst way to advertise.