Dealing with Spam

SPAM! UGH!

We all get it, all day long. Spam now accounts for well over 90% of email sent around the world. That doesn't mean we are not sending much mail, because we are in a very huge way. It's just that spammers are prolific, and it wasn't that hard to be that prevalant. A few scripts and a spammer an proliferate the net with mindless junk. It's not going to go away, at least not completely. In fact the powers that be have even suggested that perhaps we will pay for every mail sent! YIKES!! Let's hope it does not go that way.

Here is how I deal with email, and the 15 unique email accounts I run with:

I collect mail throughout the day and I use Mozilla thunderbird. I have used Outlook 2007 and 2003 (but it got so slowed I could not live with it).

1. Set your junk mail filters to HIGH
2. Collect your email regularily
3. Visit your JUNK folder after every collection and review what has come in. DO NOT OPEN ANY JUNK MAIL, just read the sender and if you do not know the person or company consider it junk
4. After the junk folder review delete the junk mail.
5. Do this after every collection and make it a habit.

I follow this process everytime and I do so to avoid an endless list of junk mail I have to inspect. I look through the junk folder to ensure no good emails have been filed and if I do find some I move it back to the Inbox and ensure that I tell the email program that it is not junk.

Yes it's a process but we have no choice right now, and I don't want to miss any important emails, and I don't want to scroll endless lists of junk...so....