Agree. All the ISPs I have had in Canada and the United States did not charge an extra fee for anti-spam filtering on their servers. Thus, I wouldn't use an ISP that charged an extra fee for spam filtering off their servers because I've never had to pay for such. However, the one I'm currently using I had to call them to activate it because when my account was first setup...they don't do it automatically (anti-spam filtering is free although not a good filtering system). Therefore, if the ISP can filter out the well known obvious spam via their own blacklists... That would get rid of most of the spam prior to it being allowed to be sent to our email address. Next, to filter the stuff the ISP didn't catch is up to us via our own spam filter programs. Here's recent review of some well known Spam Filter programs... http://spam-filter-review.toptenreviews.com http://www.consumersearch.com/www/software/spam-filters/reviews.html http://www.whichspamfilter.com/Reviews/SpamFilterReviews.htm http://email.about.com/cs/winspamreviews/tp/anti-spam.htm Last of all, if your using something like AOL or Yahoo...you might want to read this... http://www.educatedguesswork.org/movabletype/archives/2006/02/aol_yahoo_and_p.html Mark
When you get the spam...do not unsubscribe...they actually record that as an "active" email address....
No, I don't even open them I just empty the folder. In this case would they remove your email address from the list if they find the emails are never opened ?? Thanks
I've tried every spam filter in creation including baysian filters. The problem with them is that the spam prats keep changing what they do so that the filters "break." The best filter I have found (and now use) is simply to maintain a thorough address book and send all mail from people not in my address book to the Spam folder. Every few days a quick look to check that you don't want it and a delete gets rid of the trash.
Well most of the spam has stopped I can't believe it. From about 5 - 20 a day to about a couple a week now. Here's what happened. Usually I just run the "delete cookies" every once in a while. Well I ran the upgraded version of McAfee virus scan & it found 14 tracking cookies that it deemed as "items detected". This never happened before when I ran a scan, usually it finds nothing. So it cleaned up only those 14 cookies, but not the usual cookies I notice when I run the delete. So they were different in some way. What is the difference between the harmful & harmless cookie ?? Where do these come from ?? Thanks for any help.
Man NihabaAshi Your niece will be traumatized for life now; here she thought she was doing something nice for you; but instead she probably feels like she got the dogs of hell unleashed on you
Hi djxput, She's a teenager and luckily I caught her on one of those day's when she had the attitude... "Whatever". Anyways, she still emails me but does it the proper way now. In addition, I've trained her (as if a teenager can be taught anything because they know everything) when sending out emails to multiple receipents to only use the Bcc: and not the infamous To:. With the To: sent setting...everybody can see each other's email address and if one person has a virus or spyware... Guess what...all those email address are now compromise. However, such will not happen with the Bcc: setting. Mark
Not so easy to explain in two lines. It basically works like this: you go to site A. You log in. Site B, via site A, can send you a cookie. Now you go to site C. Site B, via site C, and the cookie, can tell that you are now visiting site C. Because you logged in on site A, they know it's you (if site A gives information about you to site B, which shouldn't happen very often). Besides, site A and site C have to let site B put some content on their site to send cookies. If you let the cookie stay on your machine, that is, you don't keep it just until the end of the session, they can track you for days. There is a lot of information on the internet. Just google for "tracking cookies" I honestly don't think it's very likely that you are getting spam because of tracking cookies