What is the best way to prevent Spam mail?
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Don't give your email address to anyone or anyplace you don't trust. Use Mozilla Thunderbird (free, mozilla.com) as your email client and/or Yahoo Mail as your web based mail. You can also change your email address and be more careful with it next time.
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SPAM, set up your email to block these...
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Many hours are wasted due to spam email. However, by taking simple precautions while giving out your email and installing updated free software, you can prevent spam. More info available at\n http://fixit.in/stopspam.html
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Depends on the email program.  Try finding options or preferences within the email client and then look for "spam."\n\nYahoo has options in upper right, then block addresses lower left, then you highlight and click remove block
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Everyone else answered your first and last question, so you should know what spam is now.\n\nThe most important question, "How to avoid it," has not been answered, and most people don't seem to figure it out, and would rather waste their time fighting it and installing new software and doing "maintenance."\n\nThe best way to do away with spam, is to open a second email account, and never, ever, ever sign up online for anything on the internet with that account. \n\nNow that the internet folks have your email address, it will only get worse as they sell your information to others, pass it around, trade it for other information, and generally expand the proliferation of your email address.\n\nAlmost all ISP's offer multiple email addresses, or you can get a freebie from Yahoo or MSN or whatever. \n\nNot only the "best" way, but the only way to do away with spam is to create a clean email account, and don't give it away to people you don't know. Nobody can use your email that you don't give it to. Use your spammed account to chat or join rss feeds or groups.\n\nGood luck fighting the old account. It's a losing battle.\n\nIncidentally, I have an email account I use strictly for my business that has never received one email I didn't want; not one piece of spam in over a year. What a pleasure it is to use, when you know waiting email is something you need or want. No more time wasted for unneccessary "maintenance" and fiddling with filters and blockers and the latest new spam program.
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There are 3 ways you can pursue:\n\n1. report their mail as spam & next time onwards their mails will automatically be sent to your spam/bulk folder.\n2. Block their e-mail ids & you will not receive any e-mail from them.\n3. Manually delete/ignore their mails.
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If you have a web mail address your best option is to use the "mark as spam" function (or something similar).  \n\nHowever, if you use Outlook or Outlook Express (or something like that) you should switch to Mozilla Thunderbird (free, mozilla.com), it will block most of your spam if you use the "mark as junk" feature.  \n\nAlso, if by "addresses that resemble mine" you mean they are  using the same email provider (@ISP_Name.com), using Thunderbird's message filters can usually eliminate all of that type of spam--think "To and CC lines contain (@My_ISP.com) and don't contain (My_Email_Address)". There are also options if your email generally is contained in the To or CC lines.  Just be sure to have it move mail thought as junk to the junk folder, not delete it--although it has NEVER mistaken something that wasn't junk for something that was while I've been using it, it is better to be safe than sorry.\n\nIf all else fails, change your email address and be more careful with it next time.  Make a "spam" yahoo (or other free web mail) account; if a website needs an email address, and you are not sure if they are legitimate, give them your "spam" yahoo account--you can always check it periodically for anything good.
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Change your spam option to 'immediately delete ...', use the 'block address' option. In yahoo, you can block up to 500 address and also use the 'filters option' to direct spam to your trash. In addition I have done following in the past as well:\n\n1) Automatically empty your bulk folder (i.e. delete). Don't even bother going to the bulk folder.\n\n2) Create folders for the email that you are interested in and then set up those emails to go directly to target folders (via the filter option). This way you only read the emails in those folders and anything else is your IN box is spam. Then you can just delete those emails in you IN box.\n\nIf all fails, get a new email account and stop clicking on pop up ads, links, signing up for offerings. Any of these actions can get you to opt-in without knowing it. Then the spam cycle can start all over again.
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Get some programs that block ads and spam.\n\nGood programs from download.com are Adaware and Spybot\n\nMicrosoft also has an anti-spyware program called Microsoft Antispyware.\n\nGood luck.
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The most effective way to block spam, is to reject any mail that is not from someone in your address book.
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get a spam blocker software or u may activate spam blocker of ur mail provider company..
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There are basically two places where you can work to stop the SPAM:\n\n1. in your system and its software, as suggested by above 3 responses.\n\n2. Please inform you ISP or whosoever providing you the Internet/Broadband service. They are also able to "block" SPAM. It worked with me.\n\nBy the way, I am far from an 'expert' on these Trouble Shooting, I am a victim like you and learnt (and still learning) after getting bombarded by the SPAM, Spyware and such menaces. Best of Luck!!
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mail help http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/ext/index.html\n\nreport abuse http://search1.cc.dcn.yahoo.com/cct_search.php?ui_mode=answer&prior_transaction_id=996491&action_code=5&highlight_info=16781091,276,279&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fhelp.yahoo.com%2Fhelp%2Fus%2Fmail%2Fspam%2Fspam-05.html&answer_id=5385#__highlight\n\nspam help\nhttp://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/spam/index.html
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Outlook has built-in spam blocker.  You can use customer rule to screen e-mail before they reach your mail box.
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No one is safe from the clutches of SPAM. There are some really great programs out there that help to block spam. Thunderbird is a mail client that has built in software to help fight spam. IHateSpam is a program that you train to recognize spam. IHateSpam works great. Just google either of these two programs and you should be able to find them. They are both open source which means they are licensed as free software.
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I dont think you can as if you could the email addresses would get spammed non stop\n\nChris,\nhttp://newxbox.net/
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Unfortunately, with regards to stopping junk email - prevention is better than cure.\n\nCreate a disposable email address for entering online competitions and writing on forums (those which display email addresses). Yahoo Mail Plus gives you the ability to create disposable email addresses which route to your main address (and you can even send emails from the disposable email address). This way, when the spam comes through - you can remove the disposable email address.