Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Steve on April 04, 2004, 01:48:46 AM
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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
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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! :aok
Regards,
E.P.
EasyMode!
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Only people with erectile disfunction get spam.
eskimo
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When will the spam advertisers realise that people are not interested. Spam is the worst way to advertise.