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Originally Posted by macojoe
also if you look way to the bottom of some of them email there will be a place that you can send them a email to take you off the mailing list.
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Thats one thing you don't want to do. They use that link to confirm that they are sending to an active e-mail address. Just delete them never reply to them.
Get a good suite like McAfee or Nortons that does SPAM Filtering and make sure you keep you SPAM definitions up to date. They need to be updated just like your anti-virus does.
Blocking them doesn't always work well because they change their domains constantly and name them very randomly (i.e. soandso@
yrhjdo.com) so if you block that domain they just make up another one. And sometimes they use a very generic domain name with a very random user (i.e.
ioughoi@aol.com) so you can't block mail from aol.com because that is probably 1/2 your friends and if you block that specific address they just pick another random name to send it from.
In all honesty 5-6 a day is nothing, we get an average of 25-30 per day per user at my company with some people getting over 50. I can catch probably 80% to 90% of it and have it blocked but some still gets through. Right now I have 204 SPAM messages in my junk mail folder from the long weekend.
Good luck and if you find a fool proof method please share the info....Because SPAM drives me friggin crazy