Spam Mail
 

I suppose I'm not on my own, but I receive around 30 spam emails per day, they're a flaming nuisance, wouldn't it be great if, when deleted, they bounced right back at the sender, clogging up their systemhttp://www.4smileys.com/smileys/angr...ry_smileys.gif

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I normally get very little spam, but recently YahooMail 'improved' their services..........which meant all that my learned preferences were lost, and I am having to re-educate my system to what I consider to be SPAM........in the first few days the amount of spam I received could be 20 messages in an hour(it drove me daft -seeing stuff for payday loans and gambling sites in my mailbox - not ot mention viagra)........but I am something like 3 or 4 weeks since this event and I have noticed that the spam is starting to drop off again...or go directly to my 'spam' folder.........I hope YahooMail leave it for a long while before they try to improve the site again.

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I use windows live mail for my email, and it has a block option for junk mail, I can either block an individual email address or a domain name. This appears to work in most cases, although if they send with a slightly different name etc I have to block them again. I still get spam, but not on the scale that some members seem to be getting them.

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No it wouldn't because that would tell them they had found a live email account.

I get very few spam emails, most of them are because I have live email addresses on places like the Charity Commission website but I can't do anything about that.

What do you do to give your email address away?
Do you use your ISP's email account? I don't, I use a Windows live account and several google ones and I find them very good at filtering out spam

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Do you ever use the unsubscribe links on the spam email? I did that a while ago when I was getting a few and then stopped getting them from the ones I unsubscribed from. It should work for companies you have heard of and those based in the UK like the loan companies but probably wont for your viagra problem

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Yes...I do use the unsubscribe link.....but it doesn't seem to make much difference.
I also ask people that I forward e-mails to, to remove my name and e-mail address if they are going to forward my post on to someone else(though I don't forward many e-mails these days).......this is another way to reduce spam...but many people don't do it or know how to do it.

My spam has gone down, yesterday I only had 21 spam e-mails and they were all where they should be...in the junk mail file.
I know that an odd one will still sometimes land, but I can cope with that.

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I am with Virgin and all spam is blocked out, and put in a different file which is deleted after 30 days. I have just looked at the file and there was 166 from 1st March until today. I have deleted them.

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Mine was like that, until they upgraded the progam.
It was rare that spam got to my inbox.....but I'm getting there...again.

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That's the problem with the Viagra one, it'll keep popping up. :D

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Be careful with such an aggressive spam system. I used to use uk2.net to host my domain name and they started filtering out facebook emails that we wanted. Rhonda almost lost her facebook account because something weird happened during a password change and uk2 were blocking all the password reset emails from facebook. I proved it by trying a reset on my own, live didn't block the email but uk2 did. Shortly after they failed to resolve the issue after many attempts by them and many service emails I dumped them and we all moved our emails to windows live ones

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Am I lonely or what?
I love the penis extension ads and folk letting me know where I can get the cheapest Viagra, it means someone, somewhere, really does care about me and wants me to have a happy life.
:rolleyes:

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It'll be them Polish, Chinese, Thai, girls looking for nice Englishmen for love. :D (not to mention access to your bank account & a visa to the UK)

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I keep getting asked if I want a bigger penis too, Less.
I tell them 'only if I can use it as a door stop'.

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If the door was fitted by a professional joiner it won't' need a doorstop he would never leave until you were completely satisfied.

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Aah, that's where I went wrong...didn't get a pro!
Made me laugh Less(I must have an impure mind).