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To: Dust in the Wind
The net is a useful tool to communicate with far-flung family. But it is becoming a VERY obnoxious occurrence that nearly every time I download e-mail and find 80 to 100% of it is unsolicited advertisements. Hundreds per week!

Most email programs (if you aren't hotmail or yahoo mail) can be configured to bounce a lot of the unwanted stuff. Even web-based mail can be read through some email programs. I use a program called mail washer to pre-screen all my mail for both viruses and unwanted junk. It also can be configured to bounce a lot of junk.
15 posted on 07/27/2002 8:41:19 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy
I have been putting most of them on my "blocked senders list" which helps but these outfits seem to be using some kind of randomly changing daily addresses. Does the one you are talking about block sites not just usernames as MS does?

I have to leave for a while so won't reply quickly.

16 posted on 07/27/2002 8:46:36 AM PDT by Dust in the Wind
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