I know I am not the only one, but I keep getting e-mails from porn sites. If they have the link to unsubscribe I do so; however, many of them have no link to unsubscribe. I have tried sending a reply to the e-mail address they give, but that more often than not returns to me as undeliverable.

Is there any way to get these people to stop sending these e-mails to my e-mail addy?

Do you have a hotmail or yahoo account? If so, you could set a filter to sift out unwanted junk mail or mail that contains certain words...

Block every last one of them. Keep that up for three months or so, and they'll leave you alone...

I can't do either of those things. I have a tgeweb.com e-mail address. There is neither a filter or a way to block. Any other suggestions?

<font color=skyblue>Responding to the e-mails of "unsubscribe" do nothing. In fact, they "do" let the bots know there is a live person on the other end of that signal they send out, and not an invalid address. I read somewhere that you do not respond to the unsubscribe option. I also have the tgeweb account, and get that stuff all the time. </font>

Well, actually I have had good success with the unsubscribe. But you know then that we have no way to block or filter. Or is there a feature of tgeweb.com mail that I don't know about.

I mean there must be some way to get these people to leave you alone.

The tgeweb email is a pop3 one, right? You can block emails using them, too. In Outlook.

Outlook filter's are a lot more powerful, but sadly, my outlook is not in english, so I would have lots of trouble giving you step by step instructions.

[ 03-09-2003, 02:59 PM: Message edited by: Luvian ]

And there are software available that lets you "bounce" the spam from you server before you receive them. That way the company who sent the spam mail will think that your email address does not exist. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Well, does anybody know how I would do this with POP? I am not very techy.

ummm.getting spybot helps too

but typing spybot.com doesn't work, so go to a search engine and look for it there. took out "sextracker" on my comp

As far as I know it's not the address itself that does anything, Reeka. You have to use some kind of software to access it. If you use Outlook or somesuch as Luvian mentions, it's that software that has blocking and filtering options. Check whichever program you access it with and and try the help. Otherwise check into using Netscape to access it and set up the pop info there, you can filter with their software.

Uggg, good luck finding a way to zap the Pornmails Reeka! (makes me glad I never used my tgeweb account now!)

kinda makes you think what choc does in his free time

Try mailwasher. It lets you bounce those emails from pop accounts and hotmail, too.

A friend recommended it, and I've been using it for about 2 weeks. It's a small program, and so far, has proven quite effective. ;) [img]smile.gif[/img]

That program looks interesting, Ronn. How long have you been using it? Any problems or does it mesh easily (what os are you running, out of curiosity)?

The only advice I have for you is just to filter out your email from those sites and addresses, but it's odd though. Even in my hotmail, I never get any porn or any other advertisements for that matter, lucky me [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Ps- New avatar! Hehe.

hmm, that would be a good idea Ronn. I hate the "size increasing" mails every day...and no I didn't subscibe for it :D

I too get lots of junk mail. But it's not because of the tgeweb accounts, it's when you post or sign up for things, your email address is taken and sold. GRR!
What I COULD do is make you a new email account with a new name..?? Like Reeka_tgeweb@tgeweb.com or something... ??

Let me know!

The hubby recommended Pegasus. It´s a mail client and it has built in features of selective downloads. I tried it, really cool. Before downloading the mail from the server you get a view on what is on it, then you can select what mails to download and which to delete.

I think I may have to put my junk mail filter on MAX, as I get over 100 spam mails a day. :(

Spam sucks.

We used to have Pegasus at work. I loved it! Now we have outlook and I have to admit, I don't like it at all. My spam mail at work increased by about 90% after we switched over. Seems that happened to alot of people when we switched over to the MicroShaft product. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Just under 30 seconds ago I had no idea whoe or where you come from.

So, first get a whole new account.
Second do not trust any one or any place with your real e-mail account.
Third, get a junk account, hotmail, yahoo or what not, and use that when you must publish a contact.
Stop publishing your home-page, and real email account info.

You must be vigilant in your encounters on the web.

Just under 30 seconds ago I had no idea who or where you come from.

So, first get a whole new account.
Second do not trust any one or any place with your real e-mail account.
Third, get a junk account, hotmail, yahoo or what not, and use that when you must publish a contact.
Stop publishing your home-page, and real email account info.

You must be vigilant in your encounters on the web.

The best way to get rid of spam is prevention. Personally I use two email accounts. One for registering on websites, the other I give to friends. Not too surprisingly the personal address gets only 0-2 spam messages a week, the other gets 7-8 a day.

I'm using XP Home, and I've been using Mailwasher for a few weeks. It's been working great. It doesn't replace Outlook or whatever program you use to check mail. It looks at the things that are still on the server and can bounce them from there. I forget who mentioned it to me, to I'm hooked on it. :D