Unfortunately, I can't just "disappear" it, since e-mail I want to see sometimes gets swept into the filter. I have to go through the Junk file. But at least I can grab huge swathes of crap and delete it all at once.
A common theme lately is spam disguised as important messages from the IRS, BBB, Intuit, and other real places. Often the mail is "salted" with links to actual and legitimate websites. When something is moved to my Junk file, it shows up in pure HTML format, with no graphics and the URLs right out there, so it's easy to spot the fakeouts.
What I can't figure out is what these people are thinking. How many people frantically open something they think is from the IRS, find a Viagra ad or something, and think "boy, how clever of them. I'll buy something there."
Geek Speak » in reply to Re: The fundamental thing is, do I get to say "no thanks?"
Over time, I've trained my e-mail to filter most of that stuff.
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- Is Facebook taking over the entire web?
- I thought Facebook was pulling friend suggestions out of my email contacts
- I try to avoid Facebook.
- Step one is to go through Facebook's privacy functions (extensive) and start changing settings.