Hi I gather that getting one spam a day rules out using MW. I also get very little spam, but here is how I use MW. The first thing I do each day is open MW. All the emails are marked for delete. I don't have the "Lists" listed as friends so I see all the List mail. If someone asks a question I can't answer (most of the time) and I am not interested in the reply, I don't undelete it. I don't undelete legitimate offers from companies I do business with if I am not interested them. I also don't undelete messages that I can read in the preview pane that don't require any further action. This brings up your comment that Subject Titles don't always give enough information. In most cases the Preview pane usually does. My mail this morning is a good example of what I am talking about. I first had seven emails, six of which were on "Ancestry Images" for which I have no interest. Two more checks of MW had eight more emails. Of fifteen emails, I undeleted two for download. Without MW, all the emails would have gone to the Inbox where they would have to be deleted manually. You will probably say this isn't a big deal, but I say why bother if you don't have to. Now, as to Peter, who is getting a lot spam. I think that MW with its Filtering, Blacklist, and SpamCop will eliminate a lot of his spam plus he can use it for the reasons stated above. And, I don't think this going "round the bend" or using "sledgehammer to crack nut" Also, I can see that this email takes longer to explain what to do than to actually do it. I also think that this email will have little effect on anybody. People that like MW will continue to use it and people who don't will not. Bob Wilson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington1@sky.com> To: <computers@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:44 AM Subject: Re: [COMPUTERS] Spam : : Hi Robert : : Mailwasher was suggested to me a long while back so I took a look at it but : have never fired it in anger <g> : : I could not then or now see the point in it : : Tell me if I am wrong : : You set up mailwasher which accepts all your mail, you can select certain : addresses to be on the approved list so they are released without : intervention to your inbox, but for all others you have to go to mailwasher : to check that all are required (or not) before they are released : : Once all released you can read or not from your inbox : : At present I use sky (gmail) downloaded to Outlook Express, the vast : majority of spam gets redirected to the spam folder before it gets to me, at : worst I get perhaps one spam per day which is not to much of a trial to : press delete on, everything else I receive I want : : About once a month I go to my sky account email and check the spam folder, : once in a blue moon I find one that should not be there but thats quite : unusual : : So how does mailwasher take a step out? as far as I can see it adds one in : : More than happy to be proved wrong, always willing to learn, perhaps I have : misunderstood it? : : Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) : : : : : > Nivard : > : > Since you have must have used MailWasher, you know that it actually : > eliminates : > a step. That of deleting all the spam from your Inbox, because it never : > gets downloaded. : > : > Bob Wilson : : : : ::-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: : : If it's not immediately apparent, be sure to mention how your query relates to family research. : : Please don't post promotions of commercial products or services, and avoid mentioning prices. : ::-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: : : : : : ------------------------------- : To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message :

Hi Bob I agree with all you say, there is not, and doubt there ever will be a one size fits all solution With the lists being so quiet at present, even with being on over 50 lists I download only around 35 mail at present after a 7 or 8 hour gap overnight , by comparison to over 300 not that long ago from the same lists Even at its height of volume of mail I could see no use for mailwasher but thankfully we have free choice and what suits me may not suit another user The problem I find with deleting batches by the subject line is that I might not be able to help with the first few but may have input on some of the others, once you delete the first few (without downloading) means you have to go to the archives to find what the whole thread contains, with downloading and deleting I still have them in the deleted folder to read should I want to The good thing about discussing these things in a sensible way onlist is that those who have never tried the likes of Mailwasher or whatever can make a more informed choice as to its suitability for their needs One mans meat is another mans poison :-) Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > Hi > > I gather that getting one spam a day rules out using MW. I also get very > little spam, but here is how I use MW. The first thing I do each day is > open > MW. All the emails are marked for delete. I don't have the "Lists" listed > as friends > so I see all the List mail. If someone asks a question I can't answer > (most of the > time) and I am not interested in the reply, I don't undelete it. I don't > undelete > legitimate offers from companies I do business with if I am not interested > them. I > also don't undelete messages that I can read in the preview pane that > don't > require any further action. This brings up your comment that Subject > Titles > don't always give enough information. In most cases the Preview pane > usually does.