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or is anyone else frustrated with "so called" spam filters? Most email accounts today have them. But do they work? Apparently Yahoo (mine) is only good about 75% of the time. That means either 25% od the email I get is actually spam, or legitimate email (not spam) is trapped behind the filter. Yes, with Yahoo you can get to the "blocked" stuff easily enough, but why should I waste my valuable time sorting through dozens (if not more) emails in the "bogus" folder when it's supposed to be set up to keep me from having to. In the last year I've deleted at least a dozen legit emails because I dumped said folder w/o checking it first. So is that really a big deal? In half of the cited cases it was indeed. I was expecting an answer or info from someone. For example, I shipped three FPs to Richard Binder for restoration. He emailed me twice with important questions and I never saw them. Why? Because they went to the "spam" box instead of my inbox. I can't blame Yahoo. I think they are doing the best they can to try and filter this stuff. At least they try. They set the system up to snag "catch" words in the subject line like pharmacy, @#$*% size, joke, etc., and it looks like even subject lines that sound like sales jobs. Apparently we have to be more careful with our subject lines. But how do we "know" we are using a "safe" word or phrase? As soon as we figure that one out, the spammers will use them too. Hell, I know forum members who's email Don't (or didn't) even allow emails from the forum to go through. It's a never ending cycle... until they outlaw spam, of course. Wanna try enforcing that one? Maybe even worse is that we can set our email to "mask" certain domains. That means we can choose to restrict emails coming from anyone at say, whosyurdaddy.com. But how do you know that someone who genuinely needs to contact you isn't using that ISP? AARGHHH! If any of you have a solution to this, let me know. I'm starting to get miffed!

Okay, I feel better now. Thanks for listening.[:I];)
 
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Billy - Anymore when I add a new contact I "white list" their address in my email program. I get almost no spam and haven't had a legit email misdirected in a long time.
 
Hotmail has made some changes and are very good now, too. I have all three, yahoo, gmail, and hotmail. I've had gmail only a short time and haven't given that address out much yet so I don't get any spam there. Hotmail does a great job of filtering and the ones that are legit but get caught go to a junk mail folder where there are only one or two emails to sort through. Yahoo I get 35-50 junk mails a day but so far I haven't had any legit mail go into the junk folder. I still search through it every day though.
 
I use gmail almost exclusively now and very satisfied with it. I still get a few spams but not much and haven't lost any legit email as far as I know. :D
 
I think yahoo does a pretty good job considering what they are up against. I switched to gmail once yahoo started those damn adverts that take over half the screen..[}:)][}:)]

Since my gmail account is relatively new, I get maybe one spam a week (compared to 50+ a day for yahoo)

I like the disposable email accounts you can create with yahoo, which also lets you route the incoming mails to their own folders. If one of those accounts attracted too much spam, you could just delete it and create another one.
 
Tea Clipper, can you go into that a bit more? I get about 50 a day with yahoo and I also get legitimate email in my spam. In fact I had an IAP sellers 'price' email show up in spam. I have an alternate email address that I use on sights I don't know (shopping on-line). I hadn't thought about deleting it, just being able to identify them so I can delete them on mass. But what do I do about the spam that isn't using an alternate address? Do I make a new folder, save them to that folder and then eventually delete that folder???
 
Ruth,
The feature I'm talking about is called AddressGuard. You create a base name with variations. For example, if I set up 'clipper' to be the base name, then I could have clipper-shopping, clipper-bank, clipper-<whatever>. You can create folders for each alias if you like (which is what I do). The spam filter scans all incoming mail and will route spam to the bulk folder automatically, even if you set up these extra alias/folders.

I'm sorry, you kind of lost me with your questions. It's true, sometimes legitimate email is flagged as spam, so you have to keep checking the bulk folder or set up the white list.

BTW, I'm a yahoo member, so I don't know if this works for the free accounts, but if you check the "Mail Options" there is a lot of good info and help screens there because I'm sure I didn't explain it well enough.
 
I use yahoo mail and have for years... over a 3 or 4 day period, I can wind up with nearly a 1000 (that's thousand) spam messages in my email.. I never open the spam folder.. just automatically empty it when I open email.. I also have another email that's associated with my website, but don't use in the site at all... I've never mentioned the address to anyone and still get 20-40 spams a day on that... mostly vulgar site.. the spammers mine the web constantly to pick up emails... It's a shame we don't have some way to "bounce" the spam emails back to the spammer.. and fill up their in box..
 
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