emails from unknown senders ....

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Keep your eyes open!

Between the security of my internet provider and my own security I don't see a lot of phishing or other strange emails.

Today 2 got to my email inbox. Both had attachments and I didn't recognize either sender. I trashed them without opening the attachment and emptied the trash.

There seems to be a new surge in this stuff. Take care!

[Jay Jolliffe]

I do the same...If I don't recognize where they come from they go straight to the trash...then delete

[Bruce Page]

I don't get many of them either but that is my automatic response. I'll ask LOML if she knows the sender, if not, poof!

[Mike Henderson]

I never open an attachment unless I know the person and they put some text in that indicates they actually sent it. If it's just an attachment from someone I know but there's no text explaining it, I trash it.

Mike

[Jim Koepke]

My junk mail filter puts them in a file which allows me to view the text without any HTML links being activated. On some rare occasions it is actually someone I know sending something.

I have one friend who must have about 30 different email accounts. It has been difficult, but he has pretty much learned if he wants to communicate with me he needs to do it so I know it is from him.

He used to send me 'cryptic' texts that I had no idea were from him. He would later ask me why I didn't show up for something. I told him I had no idea what a strange string of letters and numbers meant of from whom it came, so it was deleted.

In a world full of spammers and scammers we have to drop our cute screen names when we send something important to folks who may not know your cute screen name.

jtk

[Lee Schierer]

When spam gets past the earthlink filter and shows up in my inbox, I click the flame icon in thunderbird and send it directly to trash. It gets deleted automatically from there. I never open attachments from unknown sources, they also go straight to trash.

[Jim Koepke]

When spam gets past the earthlink filter and shows up in my inbox, I click the flame icon in thunderbird and send it directly to trash. It gets deleted automatically from there. I never open attachments from unknown sources, they also go straight to trash.

My email's junk file has a bounce option. It allows me to return an email as if it was never viewed and went to an invalid eddress. It doesn't work with email from a spoofed eddress.

This has been more effective at stopping spam than clicking on unsubscribe in emails from spammers.

jtk

[Roger Feeley]

For what it's worth, I like Bill Gate's suggestion about spam. Each email should cost 1/100th of a cent to send. The money would be exchanged between ISPs to cover the cost of charging us. There would be a way to whitelist someone so they wouldn't be charged. Your ISP would give you a dime's worth of emails each month for free. After that, you pay.

That wouldn't hurt any of us little guys and if a business truly wants to do business with us, it wouldn't hurt them either. But it would kill the spammers that depend on millions of emails to find one sucker. Additionally, we would receive an accounting if we go over our limit which would shut down trojan emailers too.

[Dave Anderson NH]

I just received 2 today allegedly from my ISP warning me about closing my account and with the "last notice" verbiage. When I checked them out under properties both were from email addresses in Russia. Go Phish!

[glenn bradley]

I use very easy rules; if I am not expecting a particular email it automatically gets trashed

[Steve Peterson]

I have a close email name to a marketing person that must get a thousand spam emails per day. Around 20-30 per day get directed to me, often with his middle initial. Many are trying to sell me a mailing list or get me to watch their companies webinar.

I don't understand why they keep sending me emails every single day. I ignored the last 364 emails. Why do they think the next one is going to get through. My junk email filter has over 2500 names on it and this is after the company filters out most of the obvious spam.

I like Bill G's approach to charge a token amount per email. It seems like it would cut down on the junk emails.

Steve

[Brian Elfert]

I help run the company mail server and something around 95% of all of our email is deleted as spam. We still get complaints about too much spam. I keep saying we should let all email through for an hour so users see how bad it would be without filters. Spammers come up new ways to send spam faster than the filter can block them.

[Dan Hintz]

I started blocking IP ranges. Surprisingly, US servers are the worst... they're set up as bots and spam the crap out of folks. When I started blocking certain ranges (CA and NJ hold two of my worst offenders), the spam dropped from 100s/day to a handful/month.

[Myk Rian]

This has been more effective at stopping spam than clicking on unsubscribe in emails from spammers.

You actually do that? All it does is confirm an active email address.

[Rick Potter]

In the last couple days I have gotten at least half a dozen new ones, indicating I am now a 'Mystery Shopper'.