Re: Address Book

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Bruce has a good twist on the rule.

But to really stop spam, you may need a new email address and then protect this new address as if it
were gold. Use a "throw away" email address for web surfing and online purchases. Hotmail, Yahoo
and others will give you a free throw away address. By protecting your personal email address, I
mean: Never use it on a web site, give it to only limited real friends and KILL any friend who mass
mails jokes, etc. and uses your address in the TO or CC header along with 10 to 25 other names.
When they do this to you, you can be assured that within 4 - 6 months you will be on every spam list
again. There is robot software that looks for mail with multiple names in the TO or CC header and
harvests those names. Make sure people who like to send you jokes, etc. know how to use the BCC
(Blind Carbon Copy) header.

"Jenny" <Jenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Richard in AZ" wrote:

PA Bear and Bruce gave you the facts.
However, you may not like the results of this filter.
If you choose this option, you will never hear from anyone new.
You will never hear from any friends that get a new ISP and a new email address.
You will find that you forgot to add a lot of addresses to your address book that you need to
hear
from but don't normally write to. Example, your ISP that sends you billing reminders.

At the request of several customers, I have put this filter in there mail. Only to get called in
a
couple of weeks to remove it.

"Jenny" <Jenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How do I configure my address book so that only messages from people in my
address book are downloaded into my Inbox?


I can understand that. Is there any other way to prevent spam from going into my inbox?


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