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MAN!! I have had over 80 spam messages in the past 24 hours! Appearantly I need Viagra and computer software real bad and I just don't know it! I am thinking about selecting one of these fine people and just forwarding everything I get that is spam to them for a week or two. I don't really want to adjust the spam filters because I wouldn't know how to do it properly and I do note that occassionaly legitimate business related stuff (read orders) do sometimes come in labelled as spam.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Buried in Spam ShaneShane Neifer39003.6034490741

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I thought spam was a type of "meat" product from the 60's

That sucks Shane, I don't have any answers for you though bud sorry.

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Stop giving out your email address. Don't buy or register for anything with your real address. Cook up an alternate for that.

That has saved me a ton of aggrevation.

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Spam, the great delicacy, was fed to troops in WWII

Thanks guys.....I will work with my outlook and see what I can do. Problem is my e-mail address is important for the business I am in, handing it out is how people get a hold of me. Anyway this problem is not crippling, just bl**dy annoying!

Shane

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Canada

The very best thing is to have a private e-mail account where you only let friends know it.

I have five acocunts, one for signing on forums, one for transactions, one for pals...etc etc.

I found that clearing the spam inbox and the deleted files box seems to slow things down a bit with regards to spam being recieved. I used to get 120 a week.Sam Price39003.6962847222

With my permanent Earthlink email address, I get probably a couple hundred spam messages a day, and even the spam filters would miss twenty or thirty. It got so annoying that I set my settings such that if an email address wasn't in my approved list, it would be returned to the sender with a note telling them they had to send another email to me requesting to be put on the approved list.

About that same time, I pretty much stopped using that email address altogether. I use Gmail now, which is web-based email run by google, and even though I have started getting a lot of spam sent to my google address now, I probably have only one message a week that gets by google's spam filters and lands in my inbox. Dunno how those folks do it, but they're good! So, I can recommend gmail (visit gmail.com), besides it's free and they give you a lot of space for saved messages.

Best,

Michael

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Sorr to hear about your SPAM problems Shane, hope you can have it fixed soon bud!