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You Have Your Spam Under Control
by: Romy Macias

Gavin,

I quickly read through your post. It looks like you have little to no spam in your Inbox. I mostly use Yahoo and Gmail, which you're right, Gmail has a pretty accurate spam filter.

What I do is that I try to devote Saturday mornings (an hour or so) to cleaning out my yahoo account from spam emails. I'm sure I can find a more efficient way of avoiding spam instead of managing it. But for now, this is how I've handled it.

Thanks for your detailed explanation. I look forward to what other readers have to share.

-Romy

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Quick And Free Spam Removal
by: Gavin

Thanks Romy. I check my Gmail spam box when I log in. I quickly scan through the few spam mails to make sure there's no non-spam there. I then click Select All and Delete Forever and they're all gone - pow!. It takes less than half a minute a day; and it's kept up to date. :-)

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Thanks for sharing
by: Devin Iyer

Hi Gavin,

I found your article through a web search - obviously beacuse I'm experincing spam hell!! With 50-100 spam a day, I was wondering whether to change my email address or find another solution. It seems you have a very viable solution here, so thank you for sharing.

I wonder if your solution will work if I still use Outlook instead of Eudora.

This plan does seem a bit elaborate, but I guess I have an elaborate spam problem on my hands!! I'm going to research a bit more, and if I put your suggestion into use, I'll be sure to leave some feedback here.

Thanks again .. Devin

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Spam Mail Solution in a Nutshell
by: Gavin, Unlock-Your-Happiness.com

Using Gmail as a highly effective spam filter is actually quite simple. The basis of it all is to have all your mail routed to Gmail. That's the starting point.

You can do this either by telling everyone that they should from now on use your Gmail account; or you can get an e-mail address that forwards incoming mail to your Gmail account without storing it. (Perhaps your ISP can do this?)

So, instead of managing spam filters on your e-mail program located on your hard drive, which you have to keep updating as new spam arrives (when it is already in your IN box), you let Gmail do all of that for you, on their servers. Then all you need to do is set filters at Gmail for mail from senders you definitely want coming to your (secret) e-mail address at your ISP. That's it. The rest can stay at Gmail.

Yes, you will need to change your e-mail address once you've set this up, and tell all your bona fide Contacts to use that address in future. And you'll need to tell your ISP to give you a new alias, the name of which you can decide, and to delete your old address/alias. You would use the new alias as your secret e-mail address and the one that Gmail forwards approved non-spam mail to (at your ISP).

Gmail has millions of users, so their spam filtering has to be better than one located on your computer.

Devin, thank you for your comments. I must really learn to be more brief in future! :-)

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Gmail On Your Hard Drive
by: Gavin, Unlock Your Happiness.com

Here's something else about Gmail that will make a lot of people happy, I'm sure.

Gmail has a feature that can turn it into an offline e-mail client, for all intents and purposes. This can be useful as a means for giving a superb spam filtering system while at the same time being able to have your webmail e-mails on your hard drive.

For those who aren't yet aware of this, here's how it works.

You can set things up so that Gmail syncs to your computer and you have a duplicate (of what's online at Gmail) sitting on your computer. So, when you are OFFline, you can read your e-mails and write e-mails and send them to Drafts. When you go online again, Gmail does a 'sync' to send those e-mails to their recipients, and also to download any new ones to your computer.

You can choose whether or not you want attachments downloaded to your hard drive in the syncing process. I am testing this now, and for my own needs I have elected not to download attachments as I don't want all those funny and feel-good videos and stuff on my computer and using up my paid-for bandwidth as they download. (I prefer to do that in Gmail while online, so I can choose which attachments to open, and which to delete before they chow up my bandwidth with my ISP.

To check it out, in Gmail, click on Settings (top right) >> Offline. There's a small plug-in that must be installed. While offline, you then 'log in' via the URL given, and you can read your Gmail offline in your browser.

This is surely more happy news for many who are bothered by spam mail stress.

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Spam Controls
by: Charlie

When I go into my spam control content filter, I can type in additional words to block. I click "Save" and go back to see if the words are there, but they are gone. What is happening. My email is ddiribbons at aol dot com (to be used in in the normal address formatting). [Edited by webmaster to reduce risk of spambots grabbing the e-mail address.]

Could someone help me?

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Spam Controls
by: Gavin, Unlock Your Happiness.com

Charlie, are you talking about Gmail or AOL?

I am not familiar with AOL but if it is AOL you're referring to, I will use twitter to try and get a response from someone who knows. let me know.

By the way, putting your e-mail address on any Web page is a give-away to the spam robots. So I have edited it accordingly.

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