posted on January 29, 2003 04:50:38 AM
Have you guys/gals run into this? It used to only happen once in a while but now seems to more than ever, I'm sure it's just because everyone is so busy. I sell AND buy on Ebay. Today received an email from a seller and the only word in the title of her email was her username which is rather vague. I almost deleted it. I get so much junk email all the time which has a tame sounding title and then is porno advertising when it is opened. I don't expect everyone to have the time to put in the item number on an email generated by them and not Ebay, but even if the title was what the item is, that would help. By the way, I use a junk mail filter and it only catches about ten percent of the junk. What's a good filter to use, I'm not too experienced about that.
posted on January 29, 2003 08:24:43 AM
I use about 10 filters (maybe more). When I start to get lots of email with similar titles I add words.
Some are "free" "credit" "debt" "win" and a couple of spammers names.
It catches over 100 a day in my Yahoo account. I need to go in and add a few more. They give us the option to set 50.
My Ebay email accounts are used purely for them. So far, so good with no one else getting hold of them to start sending junk to.
The Yahoo account is set up for all the businesses that insist on having your email address to open an online account with you and that is where the junk starts in.
Not lindajean on Ebay.
[ edited by lindajean on Jan 29, 2003 08:25 AM ]
posted on January 29, 2003 11:06:34 AM
I've been using a program called MailWasher to handle spam. It allows you to preview your email before downloading it to your email client. You can identify all the spam and MailWasher then bounces the email back to the sender to make it look like your email address is invalid and hopefully they'll take you off their lists. So far I've seen about 50% decrease in spam since using it.
