NHC Re: spam

["Jimbeau Harp" <jimbeauharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: fjm <2738540@xxxxxxxxxxx>

>My bad addresses for spam are all hotmail.

I use different addresses on hotmail for different purposes. This one is 
strictly for harp-l. I too noticed that I've started to get some spam on 
this address despite the fact that I don't use it for anything other than 
reading and posting to harp-l.

Some of my other hotmail accounts that I've used for ordering stuff from 
Musicians Friend, Amazon, etc. are absolutely flooded with spam -- literally 
hundreds of messages.

I've found that by setting the hotmail junk mail filter to "exclusive", I 
can deal with a lot of junk mail very quickly. The exclusive setting only 
allows mail into your in-box from addresses in your contacts list. Anything 
else goes to a separate junk mail folder.

I can then go into the junk mail folder, scan it for the rare message from a 
real person that I want to read, and delete the rest by clicking on one 
button.

You can set the junk mail filter by going to the options page.

This is the most painless way I've found to deal with a very annoying 
problem.

Jimbeau

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