AffectionateDan
1st Level Black Feather
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Death to the Spammers, Death to the Spammers, Death to the Spammmmmmmmmmmmmers (magic helmet)
Sometimes I watch TechTV, usually Robot Wars or Anime Unleashed, but there's a buncha cool shows on there, and one of them's called "Call For Help", they give all sorts of great (and more importantly, free) advice to help you with your computer troubles. Really cool. Ennyhoo, one of the segemnts on today's show dealt with the evil pestilence we all know as Spam. They have some great links in their site and free software downloads. Here's a bit of what they offer...
(note; I've cut and pasted this artickle from the site, so the links that they had in here aren't gonna show. Ya wanna go to the site and visit the Call For Help page... http://techtv.com/ )
Cat's Clicks: Breaking the Chain of Spam
Kill chain letters, stop spam, and clean out your email box, all at the same time.
Watch today at 3 p.m. and tomorrow at 9 a.m. Eastern.
By Cat Schwartz
Just over half of my 300 emails a day are spam. It only takes me about three seconds to sift through the extra baggage. You've seen these annoying emails -- everything from "Click Here for a New Car" to "Free Money Is Here for You" and worse. Today I'm bringing you some relief.
First, sign up for a free email account and use it to sign up for services so that your private account isn't bombarded with spam. Once that's taken care of, you need to put your friends in line and get them to stop sending chain letters.
To get rid of those pesky chain letters that promise all sorts of bad luck, good health, and love, love, love, you need to visit BreakTheChain.org. The folks running the site take time to look into the validity of each and every chain letter that has been submitted to the site.
There are thousands of reviews here to look at. If you have a particular letter, you can search for a keyword within the title of the email, and you're likely to find a write-up about it. The site lives on submissions, so make sure to send your letters promising "lifelong beauty" for review.
Report the spammers
Reporting spam to your Internet service provider is easier than ever. Most ISPs, including AOL, now include a Report Spam button on the email interface. Nice touch. Useful change.
Most free email services also provide spam filtering and reporting. Yahoo! Mail recently improved its SpamGuard feature. Click here for full instructions on how to use it.
Wash your mail
We've mentioned MailWasher on the show a couple of times, so I decided to see for myself, in an effort to rid my inbox of the dirty -- in more ways than one -- spam I keep receiving.
This program sets up a filter system for your email. MailWasher works independently, so it doesn't matter which email client you use.
Once it's set up, MailWasher will ask if the current mail you are looking at needs to be deleted or bounced. If you want to keep the mail, just don't check either of the boxes. If the mail is spam you hit the Bounce button, and it will send the sender an email saying that your address is no longer valid, which should cause the spam to stop. After some time, the spam will dwindle down to the mail you love, leaving no more bloated inboxes.
Keep OE clean
If you use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, try SpamNet. The tool from Cloudmark collects feedback from its 700,000 users, working collaboratively to kill spam.
Just download SpamNet and it begins to work with no configuration. Whenever you get a spam email, click the Block button. If enough people report spam from the same address, SpamNet blocks the address for all its users. Pretty darn sweet!
The OE version is available as a free beta. Try the Outlook version free for 30 days. Pay $4 per month if you decide to keep it.
Originally aired October 22, 2003
Sometimes I watch TechTV, usually Robot Wars or Anime Unleashed, but there's a buncha cool shows on there, and one of them's called "Call For Help", they give all sorts of great (and more importantly, free) advice to help you with your computer troubles. Really cool. Ennyhoo, one of the segemnts on today's show dealt with the evil pestilence we all know as Spam. They have some great links in their site and free software downloads. Here's a bit of what they offer...
(note; I've cut and pasted this artickle from the site, so the links that they had in here aren't gonna show. Ya wanna go to the site and visit the Call For Help page... http://techtv.com/ )
Cat's Clicks: Breaking the Chain of Spam
Kill chain letters, stop spam, and clean out your email box, all at the same time.
Watch today at 3 p.m. and tomorrow at 9 a.m. Eastern.
By Cat Schwartz
Just over half of my 300 emails a day are spam. It only takes me about three seconds to sift through the extra baggage. You've seen these annoying emails -- everything from "Click Here for a New Car" to "Free Money Is Here for You" and worse. Today I'm bringing you some relief.
First, sign up for a free email account and use it to sign up for services so that your private account isn't bombarded with spam. Once that's taken care of, you need to put your friends in line and get them to stop sending chain letters.
To get rid of those pesky chain letters that promise all sorts of bad luck, good health, and love, love, love, you need to visit BreakTheChain.org. The folks running the site take time to look into the validity of each and every chain letter that has been submitted to the site.
There are thousands of reviews here to look at. If you have a particular letter, you can search for a keyword within the title of the email, and you're likely to find a write-up about it. The site lives on submissions, so make sure to send your letters promising "lifelong beauty" for review.
Report the spammers
Reporting spam to your Internet service provider is easier than ever. Most ISPs, including AOL, now include a Report Spam button on the email interface. Nice touch. Useful change.
Most free email services also provide spam filtering and reporting. Yahoo! Mail recently improved its SpamGuard feature. Click here for full instructions on how to use it.
Wash your mail
We've mentioned MailWasher on the show a couple of times, so I decided to see for myself, in an effort to rid my inbox of the dirty -- in more ways than one -- spam I keep receiving.
This program sets up a filter system for your email. MailWasher works independently, so it doesn't matter which email client you use.
Once it's set up, MailWasher will ask if the current mail you are looking at needs to be deleted or bounced. If you want to keep the mail, just don't check either of the boxes. If the mail is spam you hit the Bounce button, and it will send the sender an email saying that your address is no longer valid, which should cause the spam to stop. After some time, the spam will dwindle down to the mail you love, leaving no more bloated inboxes.
Keep OE clean
If you use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, try SpamNet. The tool from Cloudmark collects feedback from its 700,000 users, working collaboratively to kill spam.
Just download SpamNet and it begins to work with no configuration. Whenever you get a spam email, click the Block button. If enough people report spam from the same address, SpamNet blocks the address for all its users. Pretty darn sweet!
The OE version is available as a free beta. Try the Outlook version free for 30 days. Pay $4 per month if you decide to keep it.
Originally aired October 22, 2003
