Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

2009-02-23 Thread Alvin Auerbach
gail.mil...@comcast.net To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:43 PM Subject: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker Hi ... I'm drowning in SPAM in my Outlook Express mail program. Can anyone recommend a reliable cheap (better yet, free) anti-spam program? As always, thanks

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2009-02-20 Thread David Turk
@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Spam:Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker GMAIL Seriously - unless you are running your own server, and you clearly are not if you are using OE, you can't block the spam from coming in to your client. You can redirect it to other folders. You can run certain security programs

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2009-02-20 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
They obviously have set some sort of spam filter, be it hardware or software. Stewart At 07:57 AM 2/20/2009, you wrote: Unfortunately, half of the email I get from this other listservs is marked as Spam. Our IT people have no answer--except they're quick to bring up that no internal email

Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

2009-02-20 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Jeff Wright jswri...@gmail.com wrote: Except we have seen Comcast blocking good mail as spam. Turning up your settings will probably make that problem even worse. I would not trust Comcast at all. Agreed. Even with the spam filtering turned off, they

Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

2009-02-19 Thread Matthew S. Taylor
GMAIL Seriously - unless you are running your own server, and you clearly are not if you are using OE, you can't block the spam from coming in to your client. You can redirect it to other folders. You can run certain security programs that will intercept it, but you still have to

Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

2009-02-19 Thread mike
All my mail goes through gmail one way or another and I get almost no spam. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Gail.Miller gail.mil...@comcast.netwrote: Hi ... I'm drowning in SPAM in my Outlook Express mail program. Can anyone recommend a reliable cheap (better yet, free) anti-spam program? As

Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

2009-02-19 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
You can try forwarding your mail through a gmail address. It does a decent job filtering spam plus it lets you identify spam. It might be a good time just to retire the spam laden email address or limit it to things that might generate more spam. Thunderbird has some sort of built in junk mail

Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

2009-02-19 Thread mike
http://www.spamfighter.com/Product_Info.asp you can look at that too... On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Gail.Miller gail.mil...@comcast.netwrote: Hi ... I'm drowning in SPAM in my Outlook Express mail program. Can anyone recommend a reliable cheap (better yet, free) anti-spam program? As

Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

2009-02-19 Thread Gail.Miller
, 2009 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker You can try forwarding your mail through a gmail address. It does a decent job filtering spam plus it lets you identify spam. It might be a good time just to retire the spam laden email address or limit it to things that might generate more spam

Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

2009-02-19 Thread gerald
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Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

2009-02-19 Thread Sue Cubic
At 04:25 PM 02/19/2009 -0500, John Duncan Yoyo wrote Thunderbird has some sort of built in junk mail filtering as well. Does comcast offer any spam filtering? You might just need to turn it on. I'm a long-time Earthlink subscriber. They do a fantastic job of filtering spam, even at the

Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

2009-02-19 Thread Tom Piwowar
I do believe you can get on Comcast's website and tweak up your level of filtering, but they should already be doing that to a degree. Except we have seen Comcast blocking good mail as spam. Turning up your settings will probably make that problem even worse. I would not trust Comcast at all.

Re: [CGUYS] Spam Blocker

2009-02-19 Thread Jeff Wright
Except we have seen Comcast blocking good mail as spam. Turning up your settings will probably make that problem even worse. I would not trust Comcast at all. Agreed. Even with the spam filtering turned off, they still filter email and incompetently at that. I switched to Gmail and never