> Can someone recommend a free or inexpensive email filter please? 4/01/2007 8:12:14 PM Hi , Gmail I received in excess of 200 emails today for TWO that's right Two 2 spam "May all your brick walls be little ones." -- Regards, Laurence E Stephenson http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/lauries/web/index.html I am Researching:- Butcher...........Stroud, Gloucestershire, England..................>1856 Fortune...........Berwickshire, Scotland................................>1858 Garlick............Liverpool, Lancashire, England......................>1863 Mee................Kilflyn, Limerick, Ireland (Palatine)................>1884 Payne..............Washingborough, Lincolnshire, England........>1863 Ritchie............Bonhill, Dunbartonshire, Scotland..................>1860 Stephenson.....Pickering, Yorkshire, England .......................>1856 Wittick............(Convict) Walsall, Staffordshire, England........>1822 Heartnet = Heart support = http://heartnet.cci.ecu.edu.au/

Hello Sheri - > In a message dated 1/4/2007 9:28:52 AM Mountain Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > I currently send a weekly newsletter to about 1500 subscribers. I > have used a moderated RootsWeb mailing list to do this for about 8 > years now. The problem is RootsWeb requires text-only messages. I'd > like to be able to give the subscribers an html option. My personal > ISP will send html, but will only allow 25 messages at a time, so that > is not an option. What other options do I have? We are a non-profit > genealogical organization with limited funds. Look at www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk (go to hosting) They offer a mailing list - and use MailMan, for a minimal cost. It's then "yours" - you can set it for html, set the subscription criteria, etc. It a small company, but with good service. I have 3 genealogical lists with them, and both the Oxfordshire & Berkshire FHSs now use them for their lists. And you don't have to be in the UK - the moonrakers list is with them, run from AUS. The usual words - I have no connection other than as a satisfied customer. Wendy

You could get a Yahoo address. I don't know if you have to tell tehm you are a nonprofit organization. You can set it up so that only you can post to it. In fact, I know of a nonprofit organizatoin that has done that. In theory, you can just have one yahoo address, but I have several of them. Even two web sites. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheri Lemon" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:29 AM Subject: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] send weekly newsletter >I currently send a weekly newsletter to about 1500 subscribers. I > have used a moderated RootsWeb mailing list to do this for about 8 > years now. The problem is RootsWeb requires text-only messages. I'd > like to be able to give the subscribers an html option. My personal > ISP will send html, but will only allow 25 messages at a time, so that > is not an option. What other options do I have? We are a non-profit > genealogical organization with limited funds. > > Sheri Lemon > > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.15.29/608 - Release Date: 12/29/2006 8:22 AM

From: "Dora Smith" <[email protected]> > Try Yahoo. For $20 a year or something you can even have it download to your e-mail program.< Thankyou Dora..... I'll try Laurence's Gmail suggestion first as it seems to be free:-)! Derick.

Sheri Lemon wrote: >Ruth, > >You're right. RootsWeb does change it to text. What I would like is a way >to send the newsletter so the subscriber RECEIVES the newsletter with the >graphics, formatting, etc. intact! > As Far As I know Mailman at rootsweb will change simple text html into plain text. However graphics such as smileys and special formatting will cause messages to go into the blocked mail. bob gillis

Try Yahoo Groups: www.groups.yahoo.com It provides a free service and you can have HTML or plain text. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 09:29:44 -0700 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] send weekly newsletter > > I currently send a weekly newsletter to about 1500 subscribers. I > have used a moderated RootsWeb mailing list to do this for about 8 > years now. The problem is RootsWeb requires text-only messages. I'd > like to be able to give the subscribers an html option. My personal > ISP will send html, but will only allow 25 messages at a time, so that > is not an option. What other options do I have? We are a non-profit > genealogical organization with limited funds. > > Sheri Lemon > > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Perhaps $20 a year may be excessive for some, especially when you can use YPOPS to do it for free: http://www.ypopsemail.com/ No matter what service you use, your address will eventually be subjected to spam, and more especially if you subscribe with that address to a Rootsweb list. Yahoo, Gmail, Inbox, Hotmail all have excellent spam filters in place. They don't guarantee to catch every single one, but they do a great job. You can also use Mailwasher PRO to check mail you download to your computer - either ISP mail or web mail you download: http://fta.firetrust.com/index.cgi?id=4622 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 07:20:04 -0600 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] GEN-COMP-TIPS > > Try Yahoo. For $20 a year or something you can even have it download to > your e-mail program. > > Yours, > Dora Smith

We virtually eliminated spam overnight My old address was [email protected] so I received about a thousand mails a day because of the spammers I contacted my ISP and asked advice and they came up with changing our email address to [email protected] the s is for smith and the 64---- is my phone number before we changed we unsubscribed all lists then changed the email address then mail merged a post to all in our address book with a read receipt request then re subscribed to all the lists again The result is my spam mail is almost zero and only comes from sites I may have visited that required my email address Any site that asks for a email address I insert a made up [email protected] and that allows me entry to the site most times My ISP explained that the harvesters or bulk mailers find it to much trouble to mail all the combinations if the first letter is lower case followed by numbers To many combinations Worked for us Regards John Shirley & John Smith Lower Hunter Valley NSW Australia -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of K Jones Sent: Thursday, 4 January 2007 6:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] GEN-COMP-TIPS

I am on AOL which uses html as the default for typing emails like I am doing now. I NEVER remember to change it to plain text. What I have found is that somewhere along the line Rootsweb must convert my message because there is never a problem. Ruth Cherecwich In a message dated 1/4/2007 9:28:52 AM Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I currently send a weekly newsletter to about 1500 subscribers. I have used a moderated RootsWeb mailing list to do this for about 8 years now. The problem is RootsWeb requires text-only messages. I'd like to be able to give the subscribers an html option. My personal ISP will send html, but will only allow 25 messages at a time, so that is not an option. What other options do I have? We are a non-profit genealogical organization with limited funds. Sheri Lemon

From: "Laurence E Stephenson" <[email protected]> > Gmail I received in excess of 200 emails today for TWO that's right Two 2 spam < Thankyou!

Ruth, You're right. RootsWeb does change it to text. What I would like is a way to send the newsletter so the subscriber RECEIVES the newsletter with the graphics, formatting, etc. intact! Sheri Lynn -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] send weekly newsletter I am on AOL which uses html as the default for typing emails like I am doing now. I NEVER remember to change it to plain text. What I have found is that somewhere along the line Rootsweb must convert my message because there is never a problem. Ruth Cherecwich In a message dated 1/4/2007 9:28:52 AM Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I currently send a weekly newsletter to about 1500 subscribers. I have used a moderated RootsWeb mailing list to do this for about 8 years now. The problem is RootsWeb requires text-only messages. I'd like to be able to give the subscribers an html option. My personal ISP will send html, but will only allow 25 messages at a time, so that is not an option. What other options do I have? We are a non-profit genealogical organization with limited funds. Sheri Lemon -------------------------------------- Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I currently send a weekly newsletter to about 1500 subscribers. I have used a moderated RootsWeb mailing list to do this for about 8 years now. The problem is RootsWeb requires text-only messages. I'd like to be able to give the subscribers an html option. My personal ISP will send html, but will only allow 25 messages at a time, so that is not an option. What other options do I have? We are a non-profit genealogical organization with limited funds. Sheri Lemon

> In order to avoid crawlers picking up your Email address you > should spell out the @ in capital letters (AT). Us humans > can read it and understand it but programs can not. > Nancy mobanx2ATsbcgolbal.net This is going to be a little bit lengthy, but I have experienced a few things that others might find worth while and/or slightly funny. Actually, computer programs for reading these things are much better than you think. This old trick of changing "@" to "at" has been known for a long time and the email search bots can deal with it very easily. Computers also combine common names to common domains. The thing that got me the most spam once was when I found out that my company (Hewlett-Packard) allowed it's employees to have 3 different email addresses and I found out that my first name at the company name ([email protected]) was available. Almost instantly, after adding that as a email address for me, I was getting over 100 emails per hour! (and I was in meeting that first couple hours) It took a few hours to get that cleaned up because some email gateway did not get changed back when I turned it off and it took multiple efforts to stop that mess. Also, don't use a common name with just 2 or 3 numbers after it. It takes no time at all and costs practically nothing for a computer to send out a few thousand emails to made up names in search of one that might be real. The person who responded with the single letter and his phone number will do well as long as it isn't harvested from someplace it is archived. I used to help out my church office with their internet and found that email addresses on websites get harvested very quickly. The last time I changed the addresses there, I put a photo type image (gif image) of the address on the web page. It worked well. People could read it, but computers could not (not yet anyway). Don't ever use an important email address on any web forms. Just because a site says they don't sell email addresses means that they don't sell them. Spammers don't have a lot of scruples. If you need to use an address in one of those forms, set up a temporary one at hotmail or yahoo. For my personal domain, I can set up many email addresses, so I make up one, use it, then delete it when it's purpose is complete. I recently did this, started getting about 20 spams per day, then deleted it when I didn't need it any more. Most of those spams were caught by my spam filter at the domain, but I still had to skim through the list or subjects to see if any of them were legit. Spammers harvest emails not just from the body of the text, but also from the header information as well, so make sure your reply address is mangled in some manner for anything that might get saved on a server somewhere (like archived genealogy lists). One good way is to add extra characters in the middle of the name somewhere, then instruct responders to remove that part. One funny one I once saw was something like: [email protected], (drop pants before responding) The problem with that one, is that it will be enough of a problem for some of those who want to reply to you, they just won't bother. It's best to not forward cute chain emails. You don't know how the future recipients will handle the headers in the forwarding they do, or where it might get archived where a spam bot can find it. I've decided to use real email addresses (about a dozen of them), turn on spam filtering on my accounts, and be ready to change the addresses as needed. It's a little bit of a hassle to change them once in a while, but this seems to work fairly well. The address I use for friends and family rarely needs changing, because I am very careful to make sure that not too many people know that one or those. Jerry [email protected]

From: "K Jones" <[email protected]> >> The most we can hope for is an email filter that keeps up with the spammers.<< Hi Can someone recommend a free or inexpensive email filter please? Ursula.

Yahoo delivers all your "spam", either to a bulk mail folder or labelled "bulk mail", and gmail weeds it out, which means that any important messages you wanted that got falsely labelled spam don't get delivered either. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurence E Stephenson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:14 AM Subject: Re: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] GEN-COMP-TIPS > > >> Can someone recommend a free or inexpensive email filter please? > > 4/01/2007 8:12:14 PM > > Hi , > Gmail I received in excess of 200 emails today for TWO that's right Two 2 > spam > > "May all your brick walls be little ones." > -- > Regards, > Laurence E Stephenson > > http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/lauries/web/index.html > > I am Researching:- > Butcher...........Stroud, Gloucestershire, England..................>1856 > Fortune...........Berwickshire, > Scotland................................>1858 > Garlick............Liverpool, Lancashire, > England......................>1863 > Mee................Kilflyn, Limerick, Ireland > (Palatine)................>1884 > Payne..............Washingborough, Lincolnshire, England........>1863 > Ritchie............Bonhill, Dunbartonshire, > Scotland..................>1860 > Stephenson.....Pickering, Yorkshire, England .......................>1856 > Wittick............(Convict) Walsall, Staffordshire, England........>1822 > > Heartnet = Heart support = http://heartnet.cci.ecu.edu.au/ > > > > > > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.15.29/608 - Release Date: 12/29/2006 8:22 AM

Try Yahoo. For $20 a year or something you can even have it download to your e-mail program. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "DJohnson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:52 AM Subject: Re: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] GEN-COMP-TIPS > > From: "K Jones" <[email protected]> > >>> The most we can hope for is an email filter that keeps up with the > spammers.<< > > Hi > > Can someone recommend a free or inexpensive email filter please? > > Ursula. > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.15.29/608 - Release Date: 12/29/2006 8:22 AM

Rita, Try downloading the full install file from this location: http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.html I had a hard time installing the Flash player once, and was able to download the full file then install, and that worked. Hope this helps! Kim

No, I have IE 6, and Flash 9. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rita Barfield" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:23 AM Subject: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] Adobe Flash Player > Assistance required please. > > I am unable to download the newest version of Adobe Flash Player, I > receive > the following message: > > "C\WINDOWS\system32\macromed\flash\flash9b.ocx" could not be opened > .please > check that your disk is not full and that you have access to the > destination > > I have not installed Internet Explorer 7, could this be the cause? > > Rita > > PS Should this type of query be sent to this list or > [email protected] > > _________________________________________________________________ > Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! > http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters > > -------------------------------------- > Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.15.29/608 - Release Date: 12/29/2006 8:22 AM

Assistance required please. I am unable to download the newest version of Adobe Flash Player, I receive the following message: "C\WINDOWS\system32\macromed\flash\flash9b.ocx" could not be opened .please check that your disk is not full and that you have access to the destination I have not installed Internet Explorer 7, could this be the cause? Rita PS Should this type of query be sent to this list or [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters

At 08:23 AM 1/3/2007 Thanks all, I will try the AT first and see if that helps and go from there. Kay