How do you handle your email?
Elder User
Joined: Aug 2003
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From: iowa
i have 7 email accounts, i have my main personal account which i hardly ever give out and i always make sure it is closed and not open to cookies when i am cruising the web, then i got the account i use for just getting messages from here, which only gets given out to ford people and other web sites requiring email registering, then i got my global yahoo account, which is 99 % junk mail , spam and **** mail crap. i usually check it once a week and just delete the entire folder without having to read anything.
Laughing Gas
Joined: Sep 2003
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From: small town, north dakota
i have a couple diff. accounts. mostly Hotmail. i just set the "filter" to max and it filters out everything whos name is not in my address list. then i just go in and hit "clear folder" and im done. then go back to the inbox and read the messages from my friends. 
Fleet Owner
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From: Blue Hill Township
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Joined: May 2003
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From: Kalispell, Mt.
My ISP offers an account with Postini.com that stops junkmail before it gets to me. You can go and see what mail is sorted out and pass on email addresses that you want to be approved and delivered to your inbox. In three or four days, I get anywhere from 300 - 600 junk mails. My inbox gets only a few spammed junk mails, which I copy and insert as an attachment and forward it to postini, who then looks at the mail signatures, etc. and adds it to the blocked senders listings.
I was at the point of just stopping email too, but now and then I get something I actually want to read, from a friend or relative.
I was at the point of just stopping email too, but now and then I get something I actually want to read, from a friend or relative.
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From: Southern NJ
Like a red-headed stepchild 
Otherwise I too would be overrun by spam mail. Currently am down to 5 email accounts, much the same as others, I use them for different purposes. 2 for business and 3 for personal. About once a month I go through the Junk Mail folders and hit the "remove me" link on all the emails. Some work, most don't, but it stems the tide for awhile. On the daily basis, I just read through all the subjects to make sure wanted mail didn't go in there by accident.
Otherwise I too would be overrun by spam mail. Currently am down to 5 email accounts, much the same as others, I use them for different purposes. 2 for business and 3 for personal. About once a month I go through the Junk Mail folders and hit the "remove me" link on all the emails. Some work, most don't, but it stems the tide for awhile. On the daily basis, I just read through all the subjects to make sure wanted mail didn't go in there by accident.
Posting Legend
Joined: Sep 2001
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If you use the remove me link it will put your address on a thousand junk email lists.
Use an email client like Eudora that has filters included that you can set up.
Get rid of anything MicroSoft that you can.
Use an email client like Eudora that has filters included that you can set up.
Get rid of anything MicroSoft that you can.
Post Fiend
Joined: Jan 2003
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From: Montana Territory
I have one email account and get maybe 1 or two junk mnails a day, and over 100 from FTE. I use the hotmail for everything, except that they keep restricting the size. Yahoo gives you 6.0Mb, Hotmail gives you 1.5MB
I use the hotmail for everything, except that they keep restricting the size. Yahoo gives you 6.0Mb, Hotmail gives you 1.5MB
Tuned
Joined: Jan 2003
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Originally posted by Torque1st
If you use the remove me link it will put your address on a thousand junk email lists.
Use an email client like Eudora that has filters included that you can set up.
Get rid of anything MicroSoft that you can.
If you use the remove me link it will put your address on a thousand junk email lists.
Use an email client like Eudora that has filters included that you can set up.
Get rid of anything MicroSoft that you can.
That's not true. I spent about an hour one day and went to all the junk mail and unsubsribed. I get about 2 junkers a day now. It totally took care of it. It WILL NOT add your mail to others lists. They already have it anyway if they wanted to do that. Netscape messenger is the easiest to delete mail in. All you have to do is flag all the unwanted mail without opening them and hit delete once.
Fleet Owner
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From: Blue Hill Township
Originally posted by Mattsbox99
I have one email account and get maybe 1 or two junk mnails a day, and over 100 from FTE. I use the hotmail for everything, except that they keep restricting the size. Yahoo gives you 6.0Mb, Hotmail gives you 1.5MB
I have one email account and get maybe 1 or two junk mnails a day, and over 100 from FTE.
I use the hotmail for everything, except that they keep restricting the size. Yahoo gives you 6.0Mb, Hotmail gives you 1.5MB
Posting Legend
Joined: Sep 2001
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Duderoy- Your experience is totally different in that respect that anyone else I have ever heard from.
Replying to remove your name just tells the junk mailers that it is a good and current email address that they can sell to others.
Check with any of the anti spam sites. They will all tell you not to do that.
Replying to remove your name just tells the junk mailers that it is a good and current email address that they can sell to others.
Check with any of the anti spam sites. They will all tell you not to do that.
Posting Guru
Joined: Jan 2003
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simple process....
Step one - click button that says "Check All"
Step Two - scroll down page - unclick anything I might wanna read - few and far between
Step 3 - Click delete.
Presto, only the stuff I care about is there. everything else is poofed.
Step one - click button that says "Check All"
Step Two - scroll down page - unclick anything I might wanna read - few and far between
Step 3 - Click delete.
Presto, only the stuff I care about is there. everything else is poofed.