Stopping Spam??

[Patriot Heart]

I have a friend who uses Earthlink, and she has a program that intercepts emails from unknown address and asks them to clarify who the sender is, are before the emails wil be accepted. The sender does not have to resend the original email. I would like to find something like that, I am getting swamped with offers for Viagra and "Great Stock Tips" to the tune of 10 or so a day. Any suggestions?

[Rhino]

There are tons of spam blocker programs out there, but none are completely effective. What program does your friend have, or is this built in to her Earthlink account? I have Earthlink and I get tons of spam.

[Rhino]

I found it. It's their standard spam blocker, but it has to be set on high. I don't do that because I don't want to add damn near everybody to my address book. The sender doesn't have to resend the original e-mail, but they do have to fill out a form and ask to be added to your address book so the reroutes won't happen in the future.

[Patriot Heart]

So there isn't an "instant" way to add everyone in the address book to the "accepted" list?

[Rhino]

Well, everyone in the address book would be on the accepted list by default, to my knowledge. I believe that's how it works. I just don't have everyone in my online accress book. They're in my Outlook address book on my PC. I don't know if there's a way to simply import them to the online address book. I'm not aware of one.

[UnkHiram]

Patriot

I use Juno and have the same problem. I have adopted a Delete first, care later attitude about Emails from anyone I dont know

[BarryC]

Yahoo email is excellent. I love it. And one thing it now does is, it puts most of that junk email into a bulk mail folder. Once in a while something legit goes in there. So you have to read through it each day.
I also have never used my Outlook Express or any other email client that's built into the computer.