Dealing with 100 Spam E-mails Everyday

Greetings,

We all get spam. We all hate spam. Nobody reads the spam. Why do we still get spam if nobody ever reads it.

Spam must work, or they would stop doing it. I get a lot of direct mail piece in my snail mail box every week. I through them all out and the next week it seems like I am getting the same thing. But, direct mail works so they keep doing it.

The problem with spam is that the products they are selling are almost always offensive. When you think about the messages in most spam are for either “enlargement” products or “enhancement” products, it makes you wonder.

I get about 100 spam messages a day. Over the past few weeks I have made a few changes to my Outlook Express to help me deal with these messages. I use TrendMicro’s PC-Cillin as my Internet Security/Virus scanning etc, program.

Built into this program is a spam filter. The filter has 3 levels. I have chosen the highest level, hoping to filter out as much as possible. Another feature allows me to create an exception list to either always allow or block any email address.

I have been tweaking the exception list on a regular basis. I receive a ton of email blasts that I actually want, and many of those are tagged as spam. I also have had some emails from friends tagged as spam. Unfortunately the program isn’t perfect. Messages that are obviously spam are getting through.

I have setup a rule in my Outlook Express to automatically delete anything that has been targeted as spam. The problem is that since some good messages get tagged, I always look in my deleted box to see if anything good has been deleted.

Spam isn’t going away, I guess we just have to learn to deal with it.

Let me know how you deal with your spam issues,

Marc