I keep getting spam messages daily about Viagra and sending them to my spam folder. But they keep coming back; is there any way I can prevent getting these messages?
I second this. They also have a way to move all of your addresses and everything. I never get spam in my inbox it all just goes to the spam folder and then you can just clear that folder. Also you can add emails to your spam list so they will go there. Its great.Originally Posted by CarolPetunia
Since I started using Gmail (Google's free web-based email), I hardly ever see spam -- it almost always goes automatically into a spam folder. And when a piece of spam does slip through, I make one click to report it and Google shuts the spammer down.
I love Gmail -- it's simple to use, messages are threaded in a convenient and logical way, there's plenty of storage space, and I can check email from anywhere. You might give it a try!
This sounds too good to be true and brings up two questions.Originally Posted by CarolPetunia
Since I started using Gmail (Google's free web-based email), I hardly ever see spam -- it almost always goes automatically into a spam folder. And when a piece of spam does slip through, I make one click to report it and Google shuts the spammer down.
I love Gmail -- it's simple to use, messages are threaded in a convenient and logical way, there's plenty of storage space, and I can check email from anywhere. You might give it a try!
This is untrue. You don't need to change email addresses. ALl that needs to be done is to learn to manage your email. bouncing around from address to address isn't going to get you anywhere.Originally Posted by Natalie_ca
Nope. Once they have your address, you're doomed.
Bouncing the emails using a program like Mailwasher, will only let those senders know that they have hit a valid email that gives them activity.
Replying to them does the same thing.
All you can do is just simply delete the emails. Eventually it will get so bad that you have to change your address.
For the record, always have a "spam" email address that you can use for sites that require you to enter an email address to register. I use my very first hotmail address and it gets loads and loads of that kind of spam, so I don't care whether it gets more, so that's why I use it for that purpose.
You aren't understanding everything here. Let me explain. It's not as hard as it looks.Originally Posted by Persi & Alley
This sounds too good to be true and brings up two questions.
1. Changing your email address can be a long and painful experience eventually resulting in lots of valuable email being lost unless google has some kind of forwarding scheme in place. The U.S. postal service only forwards mail for three months. And the problem with forever forwarding of emails is that once you give up your email address it becomes available for somebody else to use after a while meaning you will get all their email in the future. Please tell me google has this problem addressed.
2. AOL has a spam folder but all kinds of legal email ends up in this folder so I end up having to look in the spam folder all the time so I am not really solving anything. Being told that I can identify something as spam and never receive from that person again sounds wonderful, something I thought was going to happen with AOL when I would click on the TREAT THIS AS SPAM button. However, I continue to get that same email every day. It reminds me of when I was waiting at a crosswalk, continually pushing on the button to cross. Finally the button came off (probably due to frustration pushing) but I found the button wired to nothing.