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Fighting unwanted e-mail (spam)
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not too much you can do now.

Things you should do

use more than one email address use a disposable one to give to businesses
you do not know a free yahoo or hotmail account works well. I have a yahoo
that I use and the spam filter built into that works well

Do not use your real email address when posting to newsgroups there are
crawlers that just look for addresses in newsgroups.

I also create special purpose address that I create and close as needed. I
purchased a new car so creates looking_for_a_car as an email address sent
requests out to all sorts of dealers and web sites. once the car was
purchased I deleted the account.

You could simple notify the people you care about that you are changing your
address and close the one you are currently using.
If you have outlook 2003 it has junk email filtering built in that works
pretty well but it has no newsgroup reader built in.

Wayne
 
Derek said:
I am getting lots of spam mail in my outlook express, how can I stop this
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First thing to do is to *not* use your real email address in newsgroups.
Spammers scrape through news postings to harvest email addresses.

Similarly, do not use your primary email when filling out forms - if you
really aren't going to want mail from the form provider, use a valid but
throwaway address, like a free hotmail or yahoo address. Visit these to
clear out the trash.

Finally, don't respond to "remove me" messsages. They are too often used as
address verification.

HTH
-pk
 
Derek said:
I am getting lots of spam mail in my outlook express, how can I stop
this
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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. (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, add any spammers to your Blocked Senders
list, so the their messages are automatically deleted from the server
without being downloaded to your PC.

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