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MovedGoalPosts · 21-03-2004, 18:44

I think this feature is available in most email programs. In the latest releases of Outlook Express and the full blown Outlook the autoacknowledgement is usually turned off by default so you get a pop up asking if you do want to send a response.

Reslistically, some of the best ways to avoid spam are to avoid giving out you email addy indiscriminately, and don't post it to visible areas of web sites, where bots will eventually scan it.

If you are using ntl email, or similar, many spammers seem to guess the email addys using derivatives of common names. Therefore accounts named firstname.surname@ are highly likely to get spam. But if you mess it up a bit and use something like firstname.number.surname@ the spammers find it hard to find you.

It's worked for me, before I changed addys, to the odd formats, I got loads of spam. But for months now I've had not a single one.

21-03-2004, 18:44	#3
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 62 Posts: 15,868	Re: use microsoft outlook ? want to reduce spam ? I think this feature is available in most email programs. In the latest releases of Outlook Express and the full blown Outlook the autoacknowledgement is usually turned off by default so you get a pop up asking if you do want to send a response. Reslistically, some of the best ways to avoid spam are to avoid giving out you email addy indiscriminately, and don't post it to visible areas of web sites, where bots will eventually scan it. If you are using ntl email, or similar, many spammers seem to guess the email addys using derivatives of common names. Therefore accounts named firstname.surname@ are highly likely to get spam. But if you mess it up a bit and use something like firstname.number.surname@ the spammers find it hard to find you. It's worked for me, before I changed addys, to the odd formats, I got loads of spam. But for months now I've had not a single one.