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Old 04-08-2008, 06:02 PM
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Unhappy spam

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Originally Posted by Gryphonette View Post
Beyond shutting down that email addy and starting another, the only thing I can think of for an immediate fix is to locate a constant in the spam-mail and create a filter to send those immediately to Trash.
I do something similar. I own my own domain, so anything before the @ comes to me, and a lot of that is spam. So I create "message rules" in Outlook Express for email addressed specifically to me to be delivered to a special inbox, and I disregard the main inbox most of the time.

Another approach is used by Earthlink, where nobody can contact you until you approve the sender's email address. A pain to set up, but it keeps out the spam.

Good luck. This is a pain, for sure.
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