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spam download ?
« on: December 20, 2008, 02:31:57 PM »
have you every used " akismet " to stop spam

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Re: spam download ?
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2008, 02:49:14 PM »
No.  :D

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Re: spam download ?
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2008, 04:31:56 PM »
I don't receive spam. I use Gmail and GMX for E-mail providers. They have excellent built-in spam filters.


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Re: spam download ?
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2008, 06:20:49 PM »
Many so called spam filter apps sign you up for way more...i'm not saying this is the case here but some people have learned the hard way.
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Re: spam download ?
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2008, 09:17:23 PM »
My ISP also does a good job of filtering spam.  Years back, with a different ISP, it was a big problem.

Visit your ISP's website or contact support via email or phone to seek info on spam control.  They may have some spam blocking features that users can enable by logging on to your account and accessing a user settings panel.  Sometimes, Internet users are unaware of what all their ISP offers.

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Re: spam download ?
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2008, 02:16:04 PM »
No,

ISP would be Verizon, AOL, etc.

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Re: spam download ?
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2008, 02:47:17 PM »
i understand what you have said to do

isp would that be , yahoo , microsoft ,
Perhaps I should clarify a point here.  In my previous post, I was assuming you use an email account provided by your ISP (Internet Service Provider).  For example, my ISP is Embarq.  Like most, if not all, ISP's, they offer email accounts to their users.  So, I have an email address such as [email protected].  Again, I was referring to my ISP in my previous comments about enabling spam blocking features your ISP may provide to you. 

I also have a Yahoo! Mail account and Gmail account.  They have nothing to do with my ISP.  Anyone can create a Yahoo! Mail account or Gmail account; that does mean they are your ISP. 

Your ISP is whoever you pay for your Internet access, which is commonly a cable to telephone company.  Are you using an email account provided by your ISP? 

If you're using a Yahoo! Mail account or Gmail account or Hotmail account, your ISP's spam blocking may not be of any benefit is blocking spam to such accounts, since those accounts are entirely separate from your ISP.

Raptor mentioned that Gmail has spam blocking options.  I really haven't used Gmail much and was not aware of that.  So, check that out if you use Gmail.

Regarding Yahoo! Mail, if I logon, I see a button named Spam which can be clicked to mark a message as spam.  This is another account I don't use much and, consequently, have not yet encountered a spam problem with, and I don't know exactly what the Spam button does.  Yahoo had a paid email service called Mail Plus which may have more spam blocking features.

Again, if you use an ISP email account, find out whether they have spam blocking features you can enable.  There's a good chance they have it. 


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« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2008, 02:48:23 PM »
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Raptor mentioned that Gmail has spam blocking options.  I really haven't used Gmail much and was not aware of that.  So, check that out if you use Gmail

Enabled by default. Same for GMX.com

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Re: spam download ?
« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2008, 02:49:50 PM »
OK, thanks.   8)

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Re: spam download ?
« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2008, 04:16:14 PM »

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Re: spam download ?
« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2008, 05:24:56 PM »
First, an email client is different from web mail. Web mail is Google, Yahoo and so on. An email client is normally supplied by your ISP. Outlook Express, Eudora and so on, where the mail is stored on your ISP's servers.

These work for email clients. Both free for home users. Web mail has built in spam filters, some better then others. Yahoo sucks. Gmail is the best I've come across.
http://www.spamfighter.com/Product_Info.asp
http://www.spampal.org/

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Re: spam download ?
« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2008, 05:58:07 PM »
Read my post carefully, especially the part about an email client is different from web mail.

You can't use third party software with Web mail.

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Re: spam download ?
« Reply #12 on: December 21, 2008, 06:12:26 PM »
Just to add. You can't use third party software with free Web mail, you are restricted to using the built in spam filter. Yahoo is the absolute worst at stopping spam from hitting the in-box. They have a paid version of their email but I don't know if it is any better.

Best suggestion for a free web based email is Gmail. I get maybe one spam mail every 3 to 4 months in my Gmail in-box. The spam folder collects many, but that's what the spam box is for. My Yahoo account gets about 3 to 10 a day hitting the in-box and the spam folder is out of control.

To use spam filtering software you have to be using an email client. The kind that come from your ISP. I know that Bell South and a few others offer Yahoo but it isn't the same, it's still free web mail and not the same as Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora etc. 

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Re: spam download ?
« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2008, 07:37:15 AM »
No yahoo's paid version is not much better...
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Re: spam download ?
« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2008, 09:12:20 AM »
First, an email client is different from web mail. Web mail is Google, Yahoo and so on. An email client is normally supplied by your ISP. Outlook Express, Eudora and so on, where the mail is stored on your ISP's servers.
I think the above statements are not clear.  Outlook Express, Outlook, and Windows Mail are email clients.  They are *not* supplied by the ISP; they are software that's installed on your computer and used for email.  Outlook Express and Windows Mail are free; Outlook Express is found on all Windows systems from Windows 95 up through Windows XP.  Windows Mail replaced Outlook Express in Windows Vista.  Outlook is not free; it's usually obtained a part of a Microsoft Office suite.

Outlook Express, Eudora and so on, where the mail is stored on your ISP's servers.
No, when using one of these email clients (Outlook Express, Outlook,  Windows Mail, Thunderbird, Eudora, etc.), the mail is downloaded to your computer; at that point, it's no longer stored on your ISP's servers, assuming you're using POP mail and your email client is not set to leave messages on the mail server once they been downloaded, which is the normal situation for most people using an email client for their email.

With webmail, on the other hand, email messages are, indeed,  stored on your ISP's servers and remain there until you delete them or you accumulate so much mail that you exceed the ISP's limit and messages start getting automatically deleted, or new messages are simply rejected from the server until you logon and delete some messages to create space for new mail.

These work for email clients. Both free for home users.
http://www.spamfighter.com/Product_Info.asp
http://www.spampal.org/
I haven't used either of these but I visited the websites and both look like very good tools.  I think I might pick the first one if it were me.

Note: I made two edits shortly after posting.
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