Junk email

[linrom1]

It looks like my junk email has been cut by 2/3. Are there others with simillar experience. If so, I am wondering if this anti-junk email coalition is finaly having an effect.

[Tom]

It must be diverted to me. Mine is up.
I never so many people out there were that concered with my sex life-what a bunch of low-lifes.

[so.cal.fan]

I'm in the same boat here as Tom.....
Every morning my email is full of ads for Viagra, how to enlarge my penis or how to get narcotics without a RX.
They are usually from a foreign country, with only about 20% in English..........P I T A.
I tried blocking senders, and had a list about 300 names long, but just kept getting more........I just delete, and NEVER read any of them........but since it costs them nothing to send....what do they care.....I don't expect it to stop......perhaps if I got on AOL....but that is worse than the stupid spam.

[kenwoodallpromos]

Maybe they see your avatar.
My MSN keeps the spam out, but I also have MSN webtv and MSN lets all they spam get through on that, so the internet companies can control it if they want to.

[JustRalph]

Mine is way up................

I overdosed on some of that product they advertise...........

Now I need some Junk email on how to enlarge your inseam........

[BillW]

My spam level is at zero (I've had 8 hits since Feb. 1st ... attributed to acquaintences getting infected with a virus in early Feb. unwanted, but technically not spam)

Always keep a yahoo mail account open (impossible to prevent spam but easy to ignore spam there). Use it anytime you need to use your e-mail address in public (web site, someone you don't know/trust to keep your address private). Probably aol & msn give/sell your addresses away so avoid them as ISP's.

Once you have the problem, the only real solution is to change e-mail address and start following the steps above.

Bill

[Dick Schmidt]

A lot depends on your ISP. I use Earthlink and post my e-mail address all over the place. A "spam-magnet" address still has to be looked at if there is any possibility of a legit message getting mixed in with the others. Earthlink does a great job of blocking about 95% of the spam. Last week I got 19 spam messages. When I checked, Earthlink had blocked an additional 308. I can live with this.

If your ISP won't take steps to correct the problem, I would suggest you take steps to another provider. I pay an extra five bucks a month to use earthlink's mail service and consider it money well spent, as my cable company seems to think that they are doing a great job if they know what e-mail is and deliver it more or less on time.

Dick

Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.

[so.cal.fan]

Thanks for the tip, Dick....I use adelphia cable and it is really bad....I have friends whose ISPs won't even accept mail from adelphia....there is so much junk!
They do nothing.

[Bubbles]

A computer teacher at my school told a bunch of people that there's some sort of thing called Windows Messenger on the average computer. If you can find it and turn it off, he says that most kinds of pop-ups and junk e-mail will taper off. Hope this helps.

[JustRalph]

Originally posted by Bubbles
A computer teacher at my school told a bunch of people that there's some sort of thing called Windows Messenger on the average computer. If you can find it and turn it off, he says that most kinds of pop-ups and junk e-mail will taper off. Hope this helps.

It gets rid of network pop-ups.......see this link

http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/docs/messagepopup/