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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 29587" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>husband has installed a really good spam filter that gets 99% of these now. Before that we would get loads, like you. The more sites you register for, or click on, or the more you share your main email address around freely, the more likely</p><p>you are to get loads of these spam. We use several email addresses for different purposes, and avoid using our extremely personal email address for public use.</p><p></p><p>With the ads for various potency pills, or ads to make a man's appendage larger, husband would play a game - he would add up all the inches (and other statistics) the 'treatments' offered, then come and tell me, "If I'd answered all these ads, mine would now be four and a half feet long!" I think his record was seven feet - I told him that if it grew that big he could masquerade as a petrol pump at the garage. Just throw the darn thing over his arm...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p><p></p><p>PS Marg's Man here...</p><p>She makes me look cleverer than I am. </p><p>There's two ways we defeat Spam. I've HAD to get good at it because I get about 100-200 per day to my work address. (I just checked, it's six hours since the last check and I have 32 new spam out of 57 messages)</p><p>First is through our email client (the programme you receive your email with). We use Eudora which has a feature that detects possible junk mail. This feature can be 'educated' about what you consider to be junk; after about five hundred messages it has a pretty good handle on what you want to actually get. It's available for Macintosh and Windows and is soon going to go Public Domain (ie free to download)</p><p>Second is not my doing (although I'd like to take the credit) Our ISP's - we use two - both have a spam filtering service as part of their package.</p><p>In both cases the spam is not actually deleted automatically but flagged in some way (Eudora actually puts it in a special mailbox) so that you can deal with it at your leisure. You can change the settings so that you never see it but this is not a good idea because something important may be deleted unseen.</p><p></p><p>Marg has also given you the same advice I gave her years ago. It works. My work takes me to the dark side of the web so my work address is exposed to bots, etc. Even so I can keep it down to 'only' 1-200.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 29587, member: 1991"] husband has installed a really good spam filter that gets 99% of these now. Before that we would get loads, like you. The more sites you register for, or click on, or the more you share your main email address around freely, the more likely you are to get loads of these spam. We use several email addresses for different purposes, and avoid using our extremely personal email address for public use. With the ads for various potency pills, or ads to make a man's appendage larger, husband would play a game - he would add up all the inches (and other statistics) the 'treatments' offered, then come and tell me, "If I'd answered all these ads, mine would now be four and a half feet long!" I think his record was seven feet - I told him that if it grew that big he could masquerade as a petrol pump at the garage. Just throw the darn thing over his arm... Marg PS Marg's Man here... She makes me look cleverer than I am. There's two ways we defeat Spam. I've HAD to get good at it because I get about 100-200 per day to my work address. (I just checked, it's six hours since the last check and I have 32 new spam out of 57 messages) First is through our email client (the programme you receive your email with). We use Eudora which has a feature that detects possible junk mail. This feature can be 'educated' about what you consider to be junk; after about five hundred messages it has a pretty good handle on what you want to actually get. It's available for Macintosh and Windows and is soon going to go Public Domain (ie free to download) Second is not my doing (although I'd like to take the credit) Our ISP's - we use two - both have a spam filtering service as part of their package. In both cases the spam is not actually deleted automatically but flagged in some way (Eudora actually puts it in a special mailbox) so that you can deal with it at your leisure. You can change the settings so that you never see it but this is not a good idea because something important may be deleted unseen. Marg has also given you the same advice I gave her years ago. It works. My work takes me to the dark side of the web so my work address is exposed to bots, etc. Even so I can keep it down to 'only' 1-200. [/QUOTE]
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