Excessive e-mail

[Terry]

I get about 30 e-mails per day in Outlook Express from various companies &
people I don't know. How do I stop that?
Thanks. Terry

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Terry,

Create filters to automatically delete it, or use "block senders". Once they
have your email address, most will ignore requests to remove it from their
lists.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Andrew Murray]

only 30?? try 150 a day and you should start to worry.

Try Mailwasher. It's not a full featured mail reader, but does help to
filter out the spam from the real email using rules, and 'friends list" and
"blacklist".

www.mailwasher.net.

or try blocking the sender using the method specific to your mail reader.

There would be other spam blockers around - Norton have such a product.
Else search on Google.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

What to do with spam
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/email/options.mspx

Help keep spam out of your inbox
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/email/fightspam.mspx

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:

| I get about 30 e-mails per day in Outlook Express from various companies &
| people I don't know. How do I stop that?
| Thanks. Terry



---
avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean.
Virus Database (VPS): 0520-0, 05/16/2005
Tested on: 5/16/2005 8:44:30 AM
avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software.
http://www.avast.com

 

[Jim Donovan]

I get about 30 e-mails per day in Outlook Express from various companies &
people I don't know. How do I stop that?
Thanks. Terry

Might be easier for you to call your ISP too see if you can have more then
one email address, if so then set up a new email and delete the old one,
pass this new email to trusted friends only, if you want to use an email
address for subscriptions on the web or even for newsgroups try creating one
from Hotmail or Yahoo that way any junk or spam will be filtered out by MSN
and Yahoo.

Luck

Jim

 

[Richard Urban]

Have you ever heard of spam? You are getting it. You can get a handle on it
with a program like MailWasher.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

We use AT&T at work and some users get 500 unwanted emails a day. I use
Verizon DSL at home and I've never even received one unsolicited email. At
least for now, Verizon is doing a good job and AT&T is the worst.

 

[N. Miller]

Try Mailwasher.

Until MW removes the abominable "fake bounce" feature as a user option, it
is a flawed product.

 

[Leythos]

I get about 30 e-mails per day in Outlook Express from various companies &
people I don't know. How do I stop that?
Thanks. Terry

In the last 15 days we've rejected 8382 of 12006 connections, and of the
ones that were not rejected, 60% were marked/processed as spam.

30 is almost nothing in the grand scheme.

 

[Richard Urban]

Bounce only works if the e-mail address is valid. Most of the e-mail
addresses used by the spammers are crap. They go nowhere, so how can you
bounce to noplace? If you look at the e-mail address and it looks like crap,
don't even try. You DO have to do a little bit of work to use the program
correctly!

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I get about 30 e-mails per day in Outlook Express from various companies &
people I don't know. How do I stop that?
Thanks. Terry

While it's not possible to completely eliminate spam (unsolicited
commercial email), there are some precautions and steps you can take to
minimize it's impact:

1) Never, ever post your real email address to publicly accessible
forums or newsgroups, such as this one. For years now, spammers have
been using software utilities to scan such places to harvest email
addresses. It's a simple matter to disguise your posted email address
so that these software "bots" can't obtain anything useful. For
example, insert some obviously bogus characters or words into your reply
address, for example: "(e-mail address removed)."

2) Never, ever reply to any spam you receive, even to "unsubscribe" or
"remove" yourself from the spammers' address lists; you'll only compound
the problem. If spammers had any intention of honoring the your desire
not to receive spam, they wouldn't have become spammers in the first
place. When you reply to a spammer, all you're doing is confirming that
he/she has a valid, marketable email address.

3) Be especially leery of any offers from websites for free software,
services, information, etc, that require your email address, or that
require your email address so you can "login" to access the offered
service and/or information. Many such sites are supplementing their
income by collecting addresses to sell to the spammers. For instance,
subscribing to CNN.COM's Breaking News Service will garner you a lot of
additional spam. (Of course, not all such sites have under-handed
motives; it's a judgment call. If the offer seems "too good to be
true," it's most likely a scam.)

4) DO forward any and all spam, with complete headers, to the
originating ISP with a complaint. Not all ISPs will make an effort to
shut down the spammers, but many will. One tool that makes forwarding
such complaints fairly simple is SpamCop (http://spamcop.net).

4) Another useful tool is MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net). This
utility allows you to preview your email before downloading it from the
server. Spammers can even be blacklisted, so that any future emails
from them will be automatically deleted from the server.

5) Within Outlook Express or whatever other email client application
you use, add any spammers to your Blocked Senders list, so the their
messages are automatically deleted from the server without being
downloaded to your PC.




--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH

 

[Ted Zieglar]

All good recommendations, Bruce. With regard to 'previewing' mail, I
understand that if I have an unopened message in my Inbox that I suspect is
spam, if I look inside by checking the message's properties (from File >
Properties > Details > Message Source), this will not trigger a read receipt
or execute any code that may be in the message body. Is this correct?

Ted Zieglar

 

[Bruce Chambers]

All good recommendations, Bruce. With regard to 'previewing' mail, I
understand that if I have an unopened message in my Inbox that I suspect
is spam, if I look inside by checking the message's properties (from
File > Properties > Details > Message Source), this will not trigger a
read receipt or execute any code that may be in the message body. Is
this correct?

Ted Zieglar

Well, it certainly won't execute any code, and I doubt that it would
trigger a read-receipt, but I've not tested that - I never allow
read-receipts to be sent.


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Good news. Thanks.

Ted Zieglar

Well, it certainly won't execute any code, and I doubt that it would
trigger a read-receipt, but I've not tested that - I never allow
read-receipts to be sent.


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH

 

[NoStop]

In the last 15 days we've rejected 8382 of 12006 connections, and of the
ones that were not rejected, 60% were marked/processed as spam.

30 is almost nothing in the grand scheme.

No kidding. One of my host providers that hosts one of my websites is
getting 6000 spam emails per hour going through their mail server. The Net
is getting bogged down with this sh*t. It's everyones responsibility to
learn about spam and how to stop encouraging it. One good way to start is
to STOP using HTML formatted email messaging. Email was never designed to
be formatted like that and it just encourages spammers when they find
through feedback that people actually look at their spam.

 

[DevilsPGD]

In message <[email protected]> Bruce Chambers

While it's not possible to completely eliminate spam (unsolicited
commercial email), there are some precautions and steps you can take to
minimize it's impact:

1) Never, ever post your real email address to publicly accessible
forums or newsgroups, such as this one. For years now, spammers have
been using software utilities to scan such places to harvest email
addresses. It's a simple matter to disguise your posted email address
so that these software "bots" can't obtain anything useful. For
example, insert some obviously bogus characters or words into your reply
address, for example: "(e-mail address removed)."

That is an extremely bad suggestion -- Unless you own NOSPAMisp.com, you
don't have authorization to use that domain.

If you want to obfusiticate your email address, add a .invalid TLD to
make sure that your spam doesn't get addressed to someone else.

 

[Guest]

Block the sender by highlighting the email, not opening it. Then click on the
Message box up in the title bar. A dropdown will come down and you'll see a
"block sender" option. Click on that...then it will be all future ones from
that person will be blocked. It also deletes the email but sends it to your
"deleted" email box. Open the "deleted" folder highlight the email...hold the
shift key and then hit the delete key and you'll get a dialog box asking you
if you really want to delete it. Click "yes". Then it is erased from your
hard drive without ever opening it. You can do virtually the same thing in
your "in" box. Stuff you don't know anything about....highlight it, hold down
the shift key, and then push the delete key..and the same dialog box will
come up again confirming that you want to delete it, and zap...it's gone. You
don't have to open it. It works ....I do it all the time.