What do you guys do about spam....

jd50ae

...in your e-mail..? I am getting hit about 40 times a day.

New Boots

jd50ae:

...in your e-mail..? I am getting hit about 40 times a day.

What email client do you use?

LiquidChaos66

jd50ae:

...in your e-mail..? I am getting hit about 40 times a day.

It's a never ending battle for me. I signed up for one thing on Facebook years ago and now my junk folder gets 20-30 emails every other day. Before that I never got spam. Just sort and delete my friend. Other than getting a virgin email address but that's a pain to tell everyone which one is correct and keeping it clean.

jthanatos

Fry it up with some pineapple.

...but seriously, what do you use for your email? Should be able to apply some filtering. Also, I maintain a couple throwaway email accounts for registering on random sites, so not EVERYONE has my email.

New Boots

jthanatos:

Fry it up with some pineapple.

...but seriously, what do you use for your email? Should be able to apply some filtering. Also, I maintain a couple throwaway email accounts for registering on random sites, so not EVERYONE has my email.

Yup yup.....I have 2 "active" accounts. Both on Gmail, 1 is my main, 1 is my trash. Gmail has amazing filters, I'll never use any other email client.

jd50ae

New Boots:

jd50ae:

...in your e-mail..? I am getting hit about 40 times a day.

What email client do you use?

Earthlink

0patience

use the filters. Are you adding them to Junkmail? Or just deleting them?

danielzreyes

jthanatos:

Fry it up with some pineapple.

...but seriously, what do you use for your email? Should be able to apply some filtering. Also, I maintain a couple throwaway email accounts for registering on random sites, so not EVERYONE has my email.

I like mine with rice. I'm Filipino. Anything with rice is Oh so nice.

jd50ae

0patience:

use the filters. Are you adding them to Junkmail? Or just deleting them?

I am adding them to junk mail. Doesn't seem to do any good.

New Boots

I would switch over to Gmail. It's auto-filters will only send emails from your contact list to your inbox. Everything else is filtered out.

0patience

jd50ae:

0patience:

use the filters. Are you adding them to Junkmail? Or just deleting them?

I am adding them to junk mail. Doesn't seem to do any good.

Ok, what are you using to access earthlink? Outlook, phone, web or what?
If using webmail access, then use the spamblocker and in the settings, set it to "suspect email setting" and it will filter ALL emails, except those in your address book.
Or you can set it to filter "Known spam", which will filter all KNOWN spammers, deleting them instantly.
If you are using outlook or your phone, you can still log into the webmail and set up the spamblocker.

Echambers

Once I got bored and forwarded all the spam I got to all the other spammers. Sometimes five or six times.

Russ55

I use Gmail, and avoid social networking sites.

LeftOvers

spam sliders are good

Vision

LeftOvers:

spam sliders are good

A liitle butter and clove.... mmm deelish

jd50ae

Feel un-easy about changing over from Earthlink. Did that once before and it was a disaster.

Went into Earthlink mail and changed some settings around, will see what happens. A little worried because even though I mark certain things as good, Earthlink wants to tag them as junk.

There use to be a program called "spam killer" and it would send a message to every IP in the spam. Got more then a few thank you responses from people that did not realize that they had holes in their system and were being exploited. The guy sold the software to someone and it ended up being useless.

Thanks for the suggestions.