SPAM
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Business Computing Tips
By K&K Fainges kfainges@bigpond.net.au
Getting rid of junk emails that are becoming increasingly volumous, can be
a major task. There are a myriad of products designed to help filter your
email before it gets to you. Mailwasher is one available free off the web at http://www.mailwasher.net/.
But there is one thing you do not do and that is reply to have yourself
removed from the list, especially if it is spam from a commercial product.
That just tells them that your email is an active one and you will be
inundated.
Your email program also has tools designed to help filter these emails out.
They are called RULES. To set these up, look under TOOLS on your menu bar.
There will be an option called MESSAGE RULES or RULES WIZARD or something
similar. Here you can select options that let you delete messages
automatically without you ever needing to see them.
Free email users will be familiar with this function as most have a
"junk mail" option.
Now this takes time, you need to tell your filters which emails you want
deleted and it may take a couple of weeks to ensure that you get them all
sorted out, but it is well worth it in the long run.
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Please feel free to pass it on to your friends, just let them know I wrote
it.
Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of Vocational
and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's the 14 years of having to
make sales or starve that makes her think she has really learnt what does and
doesn't work. A tutor for all ages, she specialises in helping people get
started on the long road to technology.
"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to work."
