OT: attention Cea

OT: attention Cea Hi Cea Trying to email you but your 'incoming mail message' box is full. :) Trish

Try Mailwasher for deleting from the server without downloading. Takes a few minutes to delete hundreds of messages, and they never get to your machine.

Mine too, and I just discovered that reading mail from the home page allows me to add the senders/forwarders of the MS crap to my blocked sender list. This process crashed when I had ten msgs checked to go to blocking, but worked fine with only three. It also blocked both the original and the viral forward e-dress, so hopefully I can reduce those pesky several-hundred-a-day MS things to just a couple very quickly. (High satisfaction level in Xing that box and clicking on "yes.") I have no idea if WebTV offers this feature. Check with your support folk. HTH

--Karen M.

I've been trying to create message rules to prevent these "messages" from even coming from my ISP, but for every message rule I create, they change the address or the from title. I think I'll try reading from my homepage, too.

When this started getting bad I called earthlink for help. The person I talked to set my security level from med to high. It did block out the creeps, but unfortunately it also blocked everything and everybody else, too. I stopped getting everything.

Can't win for losing, some days. My laundry room clothes rack just fell - pulled right out of the wall. The clothes are gonna sit right where they are until all family members come home. GRRRRRR

Sharon (Who just might run away to the book store with her two gift certificates, or to Joann's with the new flyer. That'll teach'em)

I feel your pain. Run further. There must be a sunwashed beach somewhere with your name on it. (I hope this most sincerely as that would mean it has MY name on it too!!!! LOL)

Our ISP has started offering a pre-screening thing for email. It's called Postini. Wonderful thing. All our email goes through Postini before it comes to us. The viruses are weeded out, and so is the spam. It catches about 95% of it all. Then Postini sends me an email and tells me it has caught a potential spam and/or a virus infected email. then I go to my Postini "quarantined" file. I can look at them there, actually read the emails if I want to, and see if they really are spam. If it's something that I want delivered to my inbox I can tell it to deliver it. (At first, it caught my fabric.com newsletter and thought it was spam. I had to tell it that No, this is not spam. Only had to tell it once (would that my children were that easy!)) If it really is spam, I tell it to "remove" the email and it goes away to the cyber landfill. :) Great service.

You might be able to get that set up for yourself. I'm not sure. Here's their homepage:

HTH

Sharon

My ISP has something like that, too, called Spam Assassin, and I believe that Spam Assassin has something that individual people can use, too.

It's absolutely WONDERFUL! I get 30-40 spams a day but only read the subject lines in the daily email I get and know I don't need to look at them. A few spams still slip through, but my ISP puts a high priority on trying to stop all the leaks they can.