Posted by Peter Warman on September 24, 2003, 9:02 pm, in reply to "Spam / Junk email"
Hi John
Yes spam is becomming a real pain as everyone knows, and like yourself i have been looking at ways to stop the non stop junk.
I now only use my Hotmail e-mail address on the web, and i have upgraded my Hotmail to extra storage (£12:00 per year). Included in this is anti virus software and you can also retreive your POP mail as well. But the good thing is you can configure Hotmail to filter spam, junk or block senders, and it works very well.
I also only use my Hotmail address on my website as well. Spammers send out robots that scoop up e-mail address on every site, so get your personal e-mail address off your own site, and the junk should slow down.
I have tried many times to config Outlook Express to filter junk, but it does not work very well.
Messages from Microsoft containing a virus seems to be rampant at the moment, had 4 yesterday