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how to stop unwanted spam?????

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graham:
I add them to my blocked senders list.

Mark_Solesbury:
I find Gmails spam trap really good.

I also use thunderbird which is supposed to have some learning algorithm in it to learn what is spam and not.

I dont really get any any more.

You can manually log onto Gmail and check the spam folder, if something is in there that you want, click the 'Not Spam' folder.

If however you are using Outlook Express, you can set up some rules.

Firstly, if you receive a lot of mail that you are CC'd in this wont work - You can set up a rule to say 'If To does not contain "your mail address" then delete. Most spam gets cc'd to everyone.

Second, you can stop the blank senders one by a sneaky rule that is 'If To does not contain A or E or I or O or U then delete' or something like that.

If you dont get a lot of normal mail, add all your friends to your address book. This then becomes like a white list, and you can do a rule to say ' if From is not in my address book then delete'

Its all about how much you hate spam really!

thermidorthelobster:
If you're using a service like google mail, they should have reasonably proficient spam filtering already.  I get very little spam through gmail.

If you are accessing your email through software like Outlook, you can get plug-in spam filters which you can train to spot spam specific to you.  I use Apple's Mail application which has built-in spam filtering which works well.

By combining gmail's spam filtering and Apple Mail's, I get spam coming through to my inbox maybe once every few days.  If you're tempted to change email addresses, think about using gmail, and if you're going to stick to an ISP email address, tell us what application you use to access your email and somebody can suggest a spam filter.

datalas:

--- Quote from: "Evilgoat" ---Welcome to the net :(

A good proportion of Datalas's total are mine as well :(
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Nope,  yours don't go anywhere near that relay :)  That's just me and some of mud-club....

carbore:
If you are a business of say 6 or more then Id recommend MESSAGELABS. We used to have tons of spam, now we get hardly any. Its not inexpensive, but as our consultants are fairly well paid, if we spend time reading spam it racks up time-money fairly quickly.

If you are a home user then you need some form of aplication or filter. Tehre is no pint adding the sender to blocked, brcuase the sender email is random and probly the person before you who also got spam.  Some semi-spam will be removed, but thats more likely to be mailing list stuff thats you may have inadvertently signed up to.

Spam filters work in a few main ways (afar as I know)

Email sent form (not very reliable)
IP sent form (bit more reliable as it uses lists of know servers used for spam relay)
Heuristics, this is a clever way of determining if its spam based on content, eg, lots of rude words etc.  More reliable but depends gratley on the individual provider.
Word Filters. Cheap and cheerful, e.g. if the mail contains v*agra then block it.
Heuristics and Word filters can be got round by simply sending the content as a graphic.

Stuff based at your ISP (or mesgae labs) is clever as it uses all of the above then cross references it so is very up to date.

If you change your email address remeber to.

Pick something irrelevant possibly with a number in the middle.
Dont post your address anywhere.

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