Re: Porn-related emails

From: Don Burnette (d.burnette@clothes.comcast.net)
Date: 10/13/02 

From: "Don Burnette" <d.burnette@clothes.comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:09:55 -0500

IF it is Hotmail, then welcome to Hotmail. Not much you can do there.
Best thing to do is create a new email address, preferable with your isp. When you set up the email account, and it prompts you for the email address to display when posting messages, enter a bogus addy - just scramble your regular addy with extra letters mixed in. One of the biggest sources of spam is from folks who post on forums such as these displaying their real email addy.
Also, when you fill out information on websites, do not give your regular email addy. If it is a site that you will need a response from, have a seperate addy just for those - I use my additional hotmail address for ones that I need replies from.
This way my main addy with my isp stays relatively clean in regards to spam, however my hotmail 90% of what I get is filtered to junk or is spam that I have to delete.

Don Burnette

Ken Stokes-Wall wrote:
> Both myself and my wife are receiving unsolicited porn-
> related emails, even with maximum 'filtering'. Is it
> possible to eradicate these? Even blocking has not stopped
> further ones.

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