Dealing with Junk Mail

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 12:05 pm

Should I be able to move "Junk Mail" directly to the trash? I get five or six (sometimes more) pieces of junk every day.

rcoder · Post by **rcoder** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 12:19 pm

Dusty,

I get around 200 pieces of junk per day. I use Thunderbird which moves all but 4 to 6 to a junk folder which I dump to the trash each day. It seem to be part of visiting vrs. websites.

Bob in Willcox

Gene Howe · Post by **Gene Howe** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 12:29 pm

It might just be a function of my email provider's spam filters, but I get no "junk" mail. Now, the junk we get in the US mail is a whole nother story.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 12:33 pm

I dislike dealing with it but what really bothers me is the nature of some of the JUNK. It embarrasses me that it is even there. Yes, I know that its' existence is most likely the result of my checking in somewhere that I probably should not have been.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 12:54 pm

dusty wrote:Should I be able to move "Junk Mail" directly to the trash? I get five or six (sometimes more) pieces of junk every day.

I do! The trash can is emptied by yahoo when they see fit to do so.

I have rarely ventured into the spam filter bucket. Only to look for unreceived, expected e-mails. Just looked! My My wonder where I wandered to get those in thar!

Those are separate buckets in yahoo's 'cloud'.

I would never send spam to MY recycle bin.

It has enough garbage in thar already.

Wish mine were 5-6/day.

beeg · Post by **beeg** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 2:41 pm

dusty wrote:Should I be able to move "Junk Mail" directly to the trash? I get five or six (sometimes more) pieces of junk every day.

What email do you use?

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 2:46 pm

beeg wrote:What email do you use?

My email comes through Outlook.

db5 · Post by **db5** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 3:15 pm

almost all junk mail comes from websites you have visited; such as Craigslist. I posted a Pet Carrier for sale and am now bombarded by at least one and sometimes more from different named people (probably the same source) with Pet Carrier as the subject. Most have been filtered out now as junk but some slip through. All are obscene. Haven't been where I shouldn't go but the trolls are trolling any website they can to get email addresses.

beeg · Post by **beeg** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 8:20 pm

dusty wrote:My email comes through Outlook.

OH!!! And that's why I changed to Thunderbird. outlook just didn't really do ANYTHING about junk email for me. BIG difference when I changed to Thunderbird.

dgale · Post by **dgale** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 8:49 pm

I get all my e-mail via Yahoo's webmail page (my e-mail address is through AT&T - I no longer have AT&T internet service but they let me keep my e-mail address indefinitely via webmail, which is through Yahoo). It does a great job of filtering spam - I maybe get 3-4 spam e-mails a week that make it through. When I do get one, I can flag it as spam and the spam filter uses this info to refine itself to block it in the future.

As for spam being the result of websites we've visited - I would tend to inherently believe this but when I look at the stuff in the spam filter, 98% pertains to someone seeming to believe I have manhood insecurities that are in need of one remedy or another...I don't do any website visiting that would lead one to want to bombard me with this crap, so not sure where that comes from...unless this is a stereotype they hold for someone that frequents CraigsList, E-Bay, woodworking websites, Home Dept, and Amazon...I also get an abnormally high # of spam e-mails that are in French...not sure where that comes from, as I don't speak a lick of French. I do wade through the spam filter once or twice a week and delete all the stuff - Yahoo will eventually delete it for me but probably one out of every couple hundred spams is actually something I should have received. A few times I've found multiple e-mails from a friend, who was flagged as spam for unknown reasons and they are wondering why I never reply to them etc. Yahoo lets me flag such instances as things that should make it through and that ends the problem.