Clickem
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Has anyone found a solution to Spam Emails. Things that I have considered or tried:
1. New Email address – I have used the same yahoo address for over 20 years and it becomes entwined with friends, forums and accounts – why should I have to change it?
2. Mark them as Spam and Yahoo “will learn”, but Yahoo is a very slow learner and probably has the same problems as I do, in blocking Spam messages
3. Blocking Senders Email does not work as they use “dynamic Email addressing” that changes the Sender and Reply addresses, every single time
4. Yahoo has filters that you can write to identify and re-route Spam, and I have had about 10% success with these. Reading messages to try to identify filtering opportunities has probably made things worse, as the Sender can probably see that the messages has been opened and there is a (stupid) human at the other end – don’t poke the bear. Most Spam message consist of one large image and no words, so filtering by words in messages is not possible
5. Unsubscribing has the same effect as point 4 and is not intended to give you the opportunity to stop them. The whole image is one massive link so while there appears to be an “Unsubscribe” option, clicking anywhere on the whole message has the same effect
I could take the “just put up with it” option and don’t mind deleting 8 or 10 opportunities, to buy Bitcoins or win an Ipad 12, every day, but find it frustrating when I am busy or away from home, get a message and feel the need to download and read it in case it is a family emergency rather than a time waster
Has anyone found a solution? Is there a piece of software that would sit in front of Yahoo and filter these out? Is there anything that would work from the Router (BT)?
TIA
1. New Email address – I have used the same yahoo address for over 20 years and it becomes entwined with friends, forums and accounts – why should I have to change it?
2. Mark them as Spam and Yahoo “will learn”, but Yahoo is a very slow learner and probably has the same problems as I do, in blocking Spam messages
3. Blocking Senders Email does not work as they use “dynamic Email addressing” that changes the Sender and Reply addresses, every single time
4. Yahoo has filters that you can write to identify and re-route Spam, and I have had about 10% success with these. Reading messages to try to identify filtering opportunities has probably made things worse, as the Sender can probably see that the messages has been opened and there is a (stupid) human at the other end – don’t poke the bear. Most Spam message consist of one large image and no words, so filtering by words in messages is not possible
5. Unsubscribing has the same effect as point 4 and is not intended to give you the opportunity to stop them. The whole image is one massive link so while there appears to be an “Unsubscribe” option, clicking anywhere on the whole message has the same effect
I could take the “just put up with it” option and don’t mind deleting 8 or 10 opportunities, to buy Bitcoins or win an Ipad 12, every day, but find it frustrating when I am busy or away from home, get a message and feel the need to download and read it in case it is a family emergency rather than a time waster
Has anyone found a solution? Is there a piece of software that would sit in front of Yahoo and filter these out? Is there anything that would work from the Router (BT)?
TIA