Thank you all for the comments and information; I'm not paranoid enough, but I do do a lot of the things mentioned. Mostly I find spam pretty recognisable. I have some accounts on the web which makes life safer, and I use free mailwasher for the account which is flooded with spam. But my main account, which is POP3 only is starting to get on all the spammers lists. I have so many regulars on it I need a goodly break to change all that - which probably won't be this side of Christmas.
Joseph Joseph Harris www.smilepoetryweekly.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "T--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 5:35 PM Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] [OT] spam menace from Korea > Great post. I, too, do all of those things. I would add one more that I do > as a matter of course: > > If a message looks suspicious, even just as spam, I read the message thusly: > 1. Right-click on the email message, within email list (preview pane is > off). > 2. Select PROPERTIES. > 3. Click the DETAILS tab. > 4. Click MESSAGE SOURCE. > > This way, you can check out the email in "safe mode" without opening. It > might seem like a lot of steps, but again this is for the ocassional unknown > email, and when you do it often, it becomes a quick habit. > > More anti-spam: > 1. I have my OE set to _not_ automatically mark read upon opening, in case I > do accidentally open directly. > 2. Create lots of individual alias accounts. > > Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. > Set them up as "dummy" accounts in OE. This way, if one does get > overrun by spam, you can just kill the email address (/alias), and need to > notify or change email address with only a few places. > > 3. Set up individual Inbox subfolders to correspond with the aliases. Set > email filters to redirect them. > Helps you quickly identify what kind of email to expect where. I > something other than email from my Registrar hits my domains@ account, I > know that it is suspicious. > > > Also, to view HTML mail (when you have your settings configured to read as > plain text), click REPLY TO: and the message will appear as HTML -- if you > have your Send option set to "reply to in format which was sent". > > > T-- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Glasgow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 12:10 PM > Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] [OT] spam menace from Korea > > > > Joseph, > > > > As scams go, it's relatively unsophisticated and easy to avoid. Common > > sense email "best practices" will prevent it from having effect. Here are > > some of the ways I protect myself: > > [see original post] ____ The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your Posts To: [email protected] To change subscription settings, add a password or view the web interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
