Ok, I assume Sigecom would be your ISP, but then how do you also have an "AOL email" (address)? Do you have a subscription to AOL as well? As for spam, well, there is very little you can do about it. Yahoo have excellent spam filters in place and normally pickup such messages. However, they do get through on occasions and what you need to do then is mark them as "SPAM" so that Yahoo can learn to recognize them as such. You don't need to open the message in Yahoo when you spot one you think is spam. Select the message (tick the box in front of its listing). Then just click on the button labelled SPAM (above the message list). Yahoo will record it as such and move it to TRASH for you to delete from there. In my experience, reporting spam to "abuse@<name of isp>.com" has very little effect on the general flow of spam. This is because the majority of spam originates from forged addresses. Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: V Billings [mailto:skarlettebill@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, 16 May 2005 1:57 PM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] ISP Lance: my cable internet is provided by Sigecom. Is this what you mean? What I'm wanting to do is notify them of the virus's that are coming into my mailbox. My AOL e-mail isn't receiving any of these...only the yahoo address. Thank goodness, I've not opened any. They have a German subject line. Is anyone else having this problem? Would this be how I would handle this or is there another road I should take. TIA, Vicki

Um...Lance... I use OE6, is there a similar method there for getting rid of this "stuff"? There is, of course, no button labeled "spam" I can't always tell, just by the listing.... Thanks.... NancyT However, they do get through on occasions and what you need to do then is mark them as "SPAM" so that Yahoo can learn to recognize them as such. You don't need to open the message in Yahoo when you spot one you think is spam. Select the message (tick the box in front of its listing). Then just click on the button labelled SPAM (above the message list). Yahoo will record it as such and move it to TRASH for you to delete from there. Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: V Billings [mailto:skarlettebill@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, 16 May 2005 1:57 PM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] ISP Lance: my cable internet is provided by Sigecom. Is this what you mean? What I'm wanting to do is notify them of the virus's that are coming into my mailbox. My AOL e-mail isn't receiving any of these...only the yahoo address. Thank goodness, I've not opened any. They have a German subject line. Is anyone else having this problem? Would this be how I would handle this or is there another road I should take. TIA, Vicki ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To leave the list, click here and send: mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe To leave the DIGEST, click here and send: mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx

Yes, it is called the "DELETE" button Nancy <LOL>! Seriously though once spam has reached your OE, it is on your computer, the sender knows your address is a "real" one and as a consequence their server will send you more and more spam. Even worse, if the spam contains adware, trojans or viruses say no more - it's arrived. That is why it is necessary to intercept all your mail before downloading into OE from your ISP. Programs like Mailwasher allow you to do just that. Mailwasher will allow you to identify messages you WANT from the messages you DON'T want. It will also indicate which ones contain attachments. And once it is setup as you want it, many of those tasks will be done automatically without any intervention on your part. I have many addresses in my "blacklist" in Mailwasher. I also have many filters setup. Any of the messages coming in that fall into those categories Mailwasher deals with. I don't have to worry about them at all. Saves heaps of time, I can assure you: http://entier.ecosm.com/system/redir.php?ad=15&aid=2359 The other necessary step is to use web mail services for subscribing to lists and newsletters. The majority of spam most of us receive is generated purely by the fact we subscribe to lists such as Roots Web. If you use a web mail address for these lists, and spam becomes too much of a problem, just change the address to a new account and eventually close the other. Most of the major web mail services now have excellent spam filters in place so they nab them and move them into the Junk folder which will get emptied after a certain period of time (even if you don't look at the messages). So by using those services, the majority of spam is caught, leaving only an odd one or two for you to report as spam and let the service to deal with it. Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Tollefson [mailto:mamat@gvtel.com] Sent: Tuesday, 17 May 2005 6:52 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] ISP Um...Lance... I use OE6, is there a similar method there for getting rid of this "stuff"? There is, of course, no button labeled "spam" I can't always tell, just by the listing.... Thanks.... NancyT