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I’ve had the same email address for about ten years now, and with the move to Oregon, we’ve opted to go with the Verizon Fios package, which bundles your cable, telephone, cellphone, and email all in to one. So, I now have a new email address, and within the month the old one will be gone. The good thing about that is all the SPAM that was sent to that old email address will bounce back to the sender. 
And hopefully I’ll have a lot less SPAM in my junk e-mail folder. But how do I keep it that way? Now is the perfect time for me to eliminate SPAM, and not collect any new SPAM with the new email address. So, with that in mind, I’d like to ask you all a few questions:
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I wish I knew the answer to that myself!
Happy birthday, Michelle! :happybd: :partyman:
Happy birthday Michelle!
:tinitime: :happybd:
I am like you Janelle, I have everything filtered to go to a Spam folder, but I still look through it to make sure something important doesn’t accidentally up in there. I learned the hard way many years ago, when I first got internet and had AOL, what happens when you click on a link – somehow it allowed the person on the other end the ability to change my password and send out Spam under my email address. So yes, unless you know the email address, be especially careful.
:happybd: Michelle!!
I use a seperate emial just for newsletters and coupons and that type of thing. I click it to look a things alphabetically, delete the old stuff and junk I don’t care about and then deal with what I want to deal with. Especially if I am going shopping and want my coupons.
I have had my original aol addy since early 1990′s and refuse to lose it. So it has become more business oriented and this one (book) is my play one.
Every now and then something I don’t want to do so, hits the junk/spam folder, but it really isn’t bad.
It’s trying to get thru the pile of emails sitting here. I have gotten to the point that I delete many forwards, because, really, how many times can that woman walk around the world for breast cancer and not drop from exhasution? And we won’t discuss the prayer ones or the pass it forward and your wish will come true. :wallbash:
Janelle- I just sent you my info, so don’t spam me!! :rotfl1:
Happy Birthday, Michelle!! :party:
Janelle, spam is like the glue they use on price stickers, it takes forever to get rid of it. I wish I knew the answer.
A year or so ago someone seriously spammed my web site through my e-mail address. They sent over 2000 garbage spam e-mails to my address. It completely shut down my computer. I couldn’t send or receive e-mail, I couldn’t access any programs on my computer including Word. It was like a black hole that sucked everything into a vortex. Horrible.
It took my web mistress a couple of days to clean out all that spam and to set things up so it could never happen again. What a nightmare. I wish I knew who had done it.
Good luck with stopping the spam. I haven’t checked my e-mail yet this morning but I know when I do there will be spam e-mails in my in-box.
Have a good day all,
Cher
Happy Birthday Michelle!
:happybd:
I’ve recently moved all my “important” mail to another address because it’s all stored on the MAC server and if I delete on my iphone, it’s gone on my computer and visa versa. Makes life so much easier. So now my old optonline email is mostly the junk mail. A few people still use that one by mistake b/c computers are trained to pop up that address when they type in my name, but for the most part it’s all “junk”. The only reason I don’t get rid of it completely is because that’s the email I used to sign up all my online buying! So I have to keep it for that. But I agree with whoever said use a second email for those things!
Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone!
I use two different email addresses too. So I hope I’m avoiding a lot by doing that. Who knows.
For me it’s gmail, they have a great spam filter and catches a lot of it, sometimes one or two slip through. But for the most part I love gmail for it.
Like you I had an email address that just got inindated with the crap spam…so I had to actually delete it for atime (on good AOL you can get them back) and just let them figure out that the email address didn’t work, now I don’t have that issue.
Now my husband gets a ton of spam – I mean hundreds, finally he had enough sacrificed the name to the spam gods, and moved to a new name, but kept the old one. He went to the sites, opted out but it still didn’t work.
I also like gmail cause you can filter the mail and block users, have a certain spammer that will not go away. Block his email.
Happy Birthday, Michelle!
Janelle,
I have had a Yahoo! Plus account for almost three years ($20/year) and I probably receive 2 spam e-mails a day. I am very happy with my account.
Barbara
Happy Birthday, Michelle…
Carly, I am SOOOO enjoying “Hot Property” (highly recommend).
As far as SPAM…I have a great filter….It always annoys me that when I sign up for something I want, I get stuff I don’t.
:happybd: Michelle! :partyman:
I use a different email address for any of the newsletters and coupons I get each month. My email program does a pretty good job at sending SPAM to the junk folder, but every once in a while something will get through. I just don’t open emails from a web address I don’t know.
I hate SPAM!!! Recently I started getting a major amount of SPAM and do not know how to stop it or slow it down either… before my e-mail company changed programs, my e-mail was fine! UGH! :x
:happybd: Michelle!
Hope everyone has a great day! I just read the sunday funny. It was amazingly roflmao funny!
Congrats Ev!
As for the spam……I don’t even acheck my junk folder. I just delete…I cannot stand to take the time, to go thru all that stuff!
Happy, Happy Birthday, Michelle!!!!
Spam…ugh. I have Yahoo and I don’t get much, just about 5-6 each day, but I make sure I check it because I’ve had several very, very important things go to my junk folder – like my offer from Samhain!
I don’t have any clue how to stop it but I’m learning a few good tips from reading everyone’s suggestions.
Hope it’s a great day for everyone and my fingers are crossed for everyone in S. Fl. Stay safe!!!!
I have an Apple computer which has the spam filter built into it so I don’t get much.
I would like to make you aware of a place I go to for information about computers
that might be helpful. Kim Komando is a natonally syndiated talk show host who has a program on Saturdays on many radio stations. Go to http://www.KimKomando.com
:happybd: Michelle :partyman:
I have Yahoo and have been lucky with just a couple here and there, but
do people have to spam us
Happy Birthday, Michelle!!
Pat Cochran
Spam seems to go in cycles! I go through times when I’m getting several a day and they are so annoying! :cursing: :wallbash: Did you know there is a government website that you can forward SPAM email to? They try to track down the spammers to stop them. I only forward the SPAM that gets through to my email not the stuff that goes into the “junk” folder. That email is: spam@uce.gov
My computer tech friend said not to opt out of junk/SPAM email as that puts you out there for more. He said delete those or forward them to the government email address for spam. I was getting SPAM that was from Romania and had trouble with trying to opt out so quit trying. Bad stuff!
Good luck everyone with trying to stop it or at least pare down the amount you get.
:happybd: Enjoy your day Michelle! Indulge yourself. :present1:
Just finished “HOT PROPERTY”…and it is :hothot: Next books are Leslie’s!
Happy birthday, Michelle! :happybd:
I changed providers and was SPAM free for a couple of months, but it didn’t last.
My husband and I have a gmail account for family and bills- and a yahoo acct for newsletters (books) and the like. We connected the gmail to our outlook so we rarely get spam at that account. One thing my husband has always insisted on is that we do not open forwards, even from family. I will say that the yahoo account gets about 20-30 spam emails a day and only about half of those get sent to the junk mail folder. I have no idea how the others escape notice but I just delete. I just read that if you get emails asking for personal info you are supposed to send them to the Attorney General.
Carly,
I got my slippers and book in the mail today
hubby says the slippers are very cute
I have two different email addresses and I get spam at both of them.
I am not sure there is any way to eliminate all spam.
:happybd: Michelle! :party:
I have so much spam that I maxed out my folder, so yahoo can’t stop them anymore. Sometimes my good emails go to the spam folder now.
Hi everybody…I should say good evening, but it is morning here, so Good Morning jungle buddies and :monkey :monkey :monkey :monkey!
Happy Birthday Michelle, I hope that you have a wonderful day…don’t do too much, unless it is partying and/or relaxing with those you love…
Janelle, I know what you mean about Spam…I get them all the time, but I don’t know any foolproof way to reduce them…my solution is to just delete them entirely, even if I do recognize the address….sometimes, they use “real” email addresses, and I have opened them to find that they were just Spam…I use the McAfee Virus Protection and it has been pretty good…yahoo has been great about filtering junk for me as well…whenever I get Spam mail, it goes to the Spam folder and then I just delete them…you are better than I am…I don’t even open the folder to see if any legitimate mail is in there…I used to do that, but I stopped very quickly…At work, our techo department tries to do a better job about Spam, and it has been great too…I forget what the program is called, but it has been good at filtering my mail…the only drawback I see is that sometimes, it filters legitimate emails to the junk folder, even though they are on my list…those I go through because it is my work email…otherwise, I would just delete all of them…oh, I remember the name now…it is Postini…
You know the Spam that I really love getting? The ones that say I sent the email to myself…I laugh sometimes, especially when it uses the email address the spam was sent from as the sender…does that make sense…
I hope that everyone had a wonderful Monday…talk to you all later…
Peace and love,
Paula R.
Happy birthday, Michelle!
As for spam, Janelle – I can’t stand that, but phishing attacks are even worse. I find that gmail does a great job of filtering spam and… :X I feel like if someone I know is going to send me something/some reputable company, if they can’t handle sending something that won’t get caught in a spam trap it’s likely not something I want to see anyway. I create filters now, for certain spam – and especially phishing, so it auto deletes. Yes, I have my moments of doubt, but I’m happier with the filters.
I also been getting a lot of spam lately and I just go through and hit delete. I am not sure how to stop it or how it got started in my e-mail. :wallbash:
:happybd: Michelle may you have a lovely birthday filled with lots of good
& nice :present1:
Janelle I wish I knew the answer. I should be rich by now seeing I keep winning the lottery every day :rotfl1:
Hugssss
LindaH