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Re: Off Topic - SPAM



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I use Eudora. You can define custom filters in Eudora.

Most of my spam is automatically filtered to a junk
mailbox which I never read.

Don't all email programs do this?

The few that are not filtered I delete without reading..
No sweat, ignore the stuff and keep trading..

-Neal.

At 08:58 AM 12/5/2001 -0800, Bill Wynne wrote:
>>I agree with the comment about using a throwaway email
>>address, I had a hotmail address that I used and it
>>eventually became entirely overrun with spam
>
>It was bad, but it's much better of late: spam is diverted to a junk 
>folder 99%+.
>
>>Then I got a Yahoo email account, they
>>detect mass mailings and send them to a folder.
>
>But Yahoo is VERY slow. Even with trouble this last
>week at Hotmail it's still usually faster than Yahoo.
>
>BW
>
>
>>From: Max Pierson <maxpi_44@xxxxxxxxx>
>>To: Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: Off Topic - SPAM
>>Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 08:21:59 -0800 (PST)
>>
>>Jody
>>
>>I agree with the comment about using a throwaway email
>>address, I had a hotmail address that I used and it
>>eventually became entirely overrun with spam so I use
>>it now for my throwaway email address and I never
>>check it. Then I got a Yahoo email account, they
>>detect mass mailings and send them to a folder. Makes
>>it easy to select which ones not to open, you can just
>>read the headings and ignore most of them. After
>>taking these steps there doesn't seem to be much
>>reason to fight the "SPAM War", there are a lot of
>>terminally cranky people around to do that.
>>
>>Max
>>
>>"The race may not always go to the swift nor the battle to the strong, 
>>but it is the way to bet"
>