Just a thought, have you tried blocking the sender? ----- Original Message ----- From: "harold parks" <parksbeach@yahoo.com> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 2:48 PM Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] Bulk (Junk) emails >I have had windows xp for two years now and the number of bulk messages or >spam have > become unmanageable. (rec'd 450 from Friday pm to Monday am) Other than > deleting > 25 at the time (I use Yahoo) over to trash, is there any quicker way to > delete the entire > file at one time. If I leave them in the trash bin, will it eventually > be deleted by the system, > if not what happens when the trash become overfull. I have the spam guard > system turned on > but this does not seem to help. Any suggestions other than deleting this > address and changing to another url. > > Harold > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== > To find and join surname and location genealogy lists at RootsWeb go here: > http://lists.rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >
Just in case.....go to Message, click on Block Sender. This has worked for me. Often, however, I have to also click on Unsubscribe. I get gobs of spam also, and I used to read them then delete.....but not now! The Block Sender and Unsubscribe seem to work fine. Ruth in IN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jo" <jo@ajisi.net> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 5:06 PM Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] Bulk (Junk) emails > Just a thought, have you tried blocking the sender? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "harold parks" <parksbeach@yahoo.com> > To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 2:48 PM > Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] Bulk (Junk) emails > > >>I have had windows xp for two years now and the number of bulk messages or >>spam have >> become unmanageable. (rec'd 450 from Friday pm to Monday am) Other than >> deleting >> 25 at the time (I use Yahoo) over to trash, is there any quicker way to >> delete the entire >> file at one time. If I leave them in the trash bin, will it eventually >> be deleted by the system, >> if not what happens when the trash become overfull. I have the spam >> guard system turned on >> but this does not seem to help. Any suggestions other than deleting >> this address and changing to another url. >> >> Harold >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >> http://mail.yahoo.com >> >> >> ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== >> To find and join surname and location genealogy lists at RootsWeb go >> here: http://lists.rootsweb.com >> >> ============================== >> Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. >> New content added every business day. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >> >> > > > > ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== > To view or submit a GEDCOM, go here: > http://wc.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >