<VV> Spam & Traps (no vair)

[J R Read_HML]

My ISP provides an email bin that I COULD use to store everything.  I don't
use it that way.  But, the neat thing is that they put everything that they
feel is suspect into the BULK folder.  I view the BULK folder out on the
web.  Usually, I end up checking one box which deletes all of them at once.
Occasionally, there is something in BULK that should not be there and they
provide a way to mark that as NOT SPAM - which moves it to the normal IN box
AND allows future messages from that sender to come to the normal IN box.

Next, I glance through the subjects (on the web IN box) to catch if there
might be something that SHOULD have been in the BULK folder, but wasn't.  If
I mark something in the IN box as spam, anything further from that address
will go to BULK.  Usually everything is fine and I don't have to do that but
maybe once a week or so (mark one as SPAM).

Finally, I then use OUTLOOK to download to my local computer those that
still remain in the IN box.  I then have them (the ones I actually want to
read) on my own computer instead of out at the ISP's mail box.

This is a couple of extra steps, but I feel the slight extra effort helps
insure that I don't get what I don't want and DO get what I do want.


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Later, JR