Lance: At this time, I do also have an aol account. I started doing as you've said...clicking on the spam button. I didn't know if doing this really would alert Yahoo. Now I know that it is. This should slow it down. I'm one of the lucky ones...only getting 3, 4, or 5 a day. Some have said they're getting up to 20. So far, in my case, Yahoo hasn't caught any of them. Lance <lance.b.4u@gmail.com> wrote: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@.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 ==== 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 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour

Vicki, with your Yahoo account, you have several options available to you to deal with spam as well as clicking on the SPAM button after you have selected a message. When you have the Yahoo Mail screen open, click on MAIL OPTIONS up there on the right hand side. When the Mail Options page opens there are four links under the SPAM heading. Check each of those out and you will see this enables you to do many things to even further reduce the spam coming in. Read the information on the Anti-spam Resource centre page first as it will give you some help in setting up your filters, black list etc. 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 10:36 PM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] ISP Lance: At this time, I do also have an aol account. I started doing as you've said...clicking on the spam button. I didn't know if doing this really would alert Yahoo. Now I know that it is. This should slow it down. I'm one of the lucky ones...only getting 3, 4, or 5 a day. Some have said they're getting up to 20. So far, in my case, Yahoo hasn't caught any of them.