I’ve been busy - aren’t we all? - but it seems that lately I’ve been spending a lot of time deleting junk emails. It amazes me that with the current awareness of scams and phishing emails, that they still proliferate and pester people.
I must get dozens of the emails a day that ask me to help spend some long lost relative’s inheritance or to verify my bank account because of suspicious activity. I’ve learned the email addresses of the major banks to forward some of the emails to, and I’ve learned how to block senders and domain names manually, one at a time.
However, I haven’t found a good way to block the spam from arriving in my email box in the first place. My web site is hosted and I own my own domain name. I tried using the spam tools provided by the hosting company to block the email before it is ever downloaded to my computer, but then it started asking senders for registration information. I don’t want that either because the last thing I want to do is make it difficult for legitimate messages to get through to me.
In August, I should have a bit of a break from my crazy writing and editing schedule and then I’m going to redo this site anyway, because I’m having issues with people being able to subscribe. Maybe I’ll just hire some one to help set it up for me the right way, instead of trying to do it myself. At that time, hopefully, I’ll find a way to block the junk mail permanently. I’m spoiled because when using Comcast or Yahoo mail, I never have a problem with junk mail getting through. It’s just this business address through my hosting provider and my own domain name that’s causing the problem.
Anyone have any tips?
by Beth from Avenue Z, on July 17 2008 @ 10:02 am
Ugh! Beats me! I am inundated these days. And the dang things are so disgusting and/or stupid. Who the hell is opening and clicking on them and proving to spammers that if they send it, SOMEONE will come?
Bleh.