on 1/4/03 6:12 AM, Paul Shand at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wish there was a built in defence mechanism which could both protect > honourable web users and anihilate the origin of these impositons from the > cretins who produce these garbage emails.
Get a web email address (Hotmail, Yahoo, or one of a hundred others) and use it for all your Internet transactions. Use it for all but your best friends and associates, and keep your main email address guarded. That way most spam will be kept on that insignificant webmail account, and, over time, your main email will just have a small manageable amount of spam. Yahoo is quite good for this purpose. It separates bulk marketing email, and allows blocking too. But the main thing is that with any webmail account, it's out of sight and out of mind. Check it once a week, or once a month, and simply delete all the garbage without ever having to read it. If it's not residing on your hard drive, it's doesn't matter in the least. For those few annoying spam emails that get to your main account, you can use SpamCop to report them. It's, at the very least, a way of feeling proactive against those evil spamming bastards. http://www.spamcop.com Other than that you can explore filtering, like that used in Apple's Mail. Mail is OS X only, but there are some good spam filters for OS 9 too. -Howie -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
