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November 8, 2008I wish I avoid receiving email with advertising, promotionals, etc. Always my mail box is ful with this sort of articles which make me sick
I still receive all of kind of advertising for **** sites, an medicine, a real mess ana I have no any power to avoid this. I foun something but this is not free and I’ m not in position right now to buy something (mail washer). I can’t use this program because I have no acces to POP3, I use ony Yahoo for mail
For using Outlook Expres 6 I need acces to POP3, but always it come a notice with error, and I don’t know why. They ask me the address of the server and the name of the server and I don’t know all of this, what can I do?
Horaayy..there are 3 comment(s) for me so far ;)
You can mark them as SPAM. All winning notifications, Lottery(s) comes under SPAM mails.
When you receive e-mails from people, block their addresses or mark them as SPAM. So that, you will never receive those e-mails again. Your choice.
You can’t. You will get it, but you can cut down on the amount of spam you receive.
First off, if you use your email address when making purchases, etc., on line, be sure that you read the fine print. There is usually a box that you either have to check or uncheck to be sure that companies for which you have legitimate business do not share your address to their affiliates.
Second: check those same sites to be sure that you check out of options in which they may contact you for sporadic update information (sales, updates, etc.).
Third: Don’t give your email address to your friends. Sounds harsh, but that’s where a lot of your junk will come. OK- so let’s assume you are going to give things to friends, tell them not to include your address on any mass mailings of jokes, etc. that they will send out. You will end up getting stuff from folks that don’t know how to “reply to sender” versus “reply to all.” Plus there is the chance someone that doesn’t have their computer protected will have spyware or something that will grab your address.
I actually sent my friends a copy of email etiquette years ago which warned them of sending me notices about every plague to computer-kind, and how to check snopes or symantecs to see if their missive of horror is true. I keep that letter available for when folks new to computers start sending the stupid stuff again.
Another suggestion: I have an email address that I only use for online business transactions. I know this one will get spammed out of the wazoo, so I only look into after a completed a business transaction or once or twice a month, to make sure it stays current. I get about 50-150 spams a day in it, but I don’t bother looking in the spam folder, unless I know I’m expecting something and it hasn’t shown up.
Oh- besides virus protection, you will also need spyware protection. Add to it by using Mozilla Firefox versus Internet Explorer. My email box gets tanked with trash almost every time my husband opens up internet explorer. Avoid going onto You Tube or My Space - two incredibly buggy sites that end up in your email box.
Did I mention that you can’t avoid Spam? Actually, you can. Don’t go online.
See? there is no way around it.
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