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Old August 20th, 2009, 12:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
mapleE.
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Default How to block Ad-senders?

Hi:
For the past three months, I have been bomberded with un-needed senders from
which I purchased in the past. Some days, there are 20 different companies,
such as JC Penney, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, Tiger and others. Since I have no
intention to purchase until X-mas time, ....

My question is;
How to block those 'Un-needed' and 'Aggressive' companies that keep sendint
me e-mails every day?

Thanks for your help in advance.


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Old August 20th, 2009, 01:13 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Steve Cochran
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Default How to block Ad-senders?

Any reputable company (make sure their links actually point to the company's
website and not some other one) will have an unsubscribe link in the bottom
of the email to stop having messages sent in the future. Also, when you
purchase something, there is usually a checkbox item when checking out to
receive or not emails from that company. Its usually checked by default and
you need to uncheck it when purchasing. Also go to Tools | Options |
Security and check the option to block images and other external content ,as
if you do that it will prevent spammers from verifying your email address as
valid.

You can't block it all, but that will help some.

steve

"MapleE." wrote in message
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Hi:
For the past three months, I have been bomberded with un-needed senders
from which I purchased in the past. Some days, there are 20 different
companies, such as JC Penney, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, Tiger and others. Since I
have no intention to purchase until X-mas time, ....

My question is;
How to block those 'Un-needed' and 'Aggressive' companies that keep
sendint me e-mails every day?

Thanks for your help in advance.



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Old August 20th, 2009, 03:51 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
PA Bear [MS MVP]
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Default How to block Ad-senders?

See Steve's reply. Or you could use one or more Message Rules to filter
such messages (and others) to Deleted Items folder.

Message Rules Tips
http://www.insideoe.com/tips/rules.htm

Why doesn't my rule work?
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#rules

Filter /in/ your messages
http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
www.banthecheck.com


MapleE. wrote:
For the past three months, I have been bomberded with un-needed senders
from
which I purchased in the past. Some days, there are 20 different
companies,
such as JC Penney, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, Tiger and others. Since I have no
intention to purchase until X-mas time, ....

My question is;
How to block those 'Un-needed' and 'Aggressive' companies that keep
sendint
me e-mails every day?

Thanks for your help in advance.


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Old August 20th, 2009, 05:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
N. Miller
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Default How to block Ad-senders?

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:50:59 -0400, MapleE. wrote:

For the past three months, I have been bomberded with un-needed senders from
which I purchased in the past. Some days, there are 20 different companies,
such as JC Penney, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, Tiger and others. Since I have no
intention to purchase until X-mas time, ....

My question is;
How to block those 'Un-needed' and 'Aggressive' companies that keep sendint
me e-mails every day?

Thanks for your help in advance.


When you placed your online orders in the past, did you pay attention to all
information fields while filling out the order form? You may have submitted
the order with a request for information pre-checked (a common practice with
many commercial entities). On the possibility that is what happened, suggest
you follow Steve Cochran's advice to "unsubscribe".

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
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Old August 20th, 2009, 08:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default How to block Ad-senders?

MapleE. wrote:

For the past three months, I have been bomberded with un-needed senders from
which I purchased in the past. Some days, there are 20 different companies,
such as JC Penney, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, Tiger and others. Since I have no
intention to purchase until X-mas time, ....

My question is;
How to block those 'Un-needed' and 'Aggressive' companies that keep sendint
me e-mails every day?


How would ANY of them have gotten your e-mail address? Because YOU gave
it to them. If you don't guard your e-mail address then expect it to
get abused.

You could use aliases to your real e-mail account. If you no longer
want e-mails from that source, you just kill the alias and further
incoming e-mails to it will get rejected ("recipient not defined").
Sneakemail.com is one such alias service (if your own e-mail provider
doesn't have an aliasing feature) and their free plan is probably
sufficient for your personal needs. The free account does have quotas
regarding maximum e-mails per day so read them to make sure your e-mail
volume is not excessive (for that portion of it through which you plan
to use aliases at sneakemail). Make sure to use a unique alias to each
recipient. That way, you know exactly who is using that alias or if you
get spam through it from elsewhere then you know you violated your trust
by selling off your e-mail address to spammers.

If you have to give out an e-mail address on-the-fly (i.e., you are at a
sales counter and don't have access to a computer to generate an alias
that you then give out to the clerk), use an on-the-fly aliasing
service. Spamgourmet.com lets you define an account to which you can
give out aliases at-will. You just prepend whatever string you want to
create an instant alias. You can specify a default number of maximum
e-mails that can come through that alias in your Spamgourmet account
(the default is 5) but you can also specify the max when you generate
the on-the-fly alias. Say you create an account
and default to the max of 5 e-mails allowed per alias. However, you
just signed up for a game site account (to use their forum) but don't
trust them yet so you tell them you are
.
You don't need to go to spamgourmet.com to create the alias. It's
automatic. That alias will allow only up to 20 e-mails through it (only
because you feel you need more for the forum for long enough to trust
them and then later change your profile to give out your real e-mail
address if they don't abuse it). With sneakemail.com, you can delete an
alias. Can't do that with spamgourmet.com but you can change the max
receive count to 0 or 1.

For something like the birthday club at Timberlodge, I give them a
sneakemail alias because it will continue existing until I decide
otherwise. For something like submitting a review at Cnet's
download.com about some software, and because I don't care to have a
permanent account there so I make one up, I use spamgourmet to give me
an alias on-the-fly but also specify a max count of 2 (one for the
confirmation e-mail to complete the [temp] account registration and one
more in case the first one fails).

There is also trashmail.net where you can create an alias to your true
e-mail account. You can also specify how many e-mails can get through
that alias and when it expires. I like the expiration feature and wish
both sneakemail and spamgourmet had it so I don't have to remember to
log into those account to delete the aliases or reduce their receive
count to zero.

Be aware that many sites will reject e-mail addresses that use these
aliasing services (sneakemail, spamgourmet, spammotel, trashmail, etc).
In that case, create a temp account at Hotmail, Gmail, or Yahoo and see
if they'll accept that. Then afterward just abandon the temp account
(or, if you want to be polite, use their Close Account procedure to kill
the temp account). Doesn't matter how big is the company. If you are
new to them, they are an unknown regarding their use of your e-mail
address. By using an alias, especially one that is unique to them, you
can gauge after several months if you want to give them your true e-mail
address or not. You only give out your true e-mail address to known
good recipients. For new recipients, give them an alias for a trial
period for them to earn your trust. Trust should be earned, not just
doled out because someone asked you to trust them.
 




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