Comments on: Time Saving Email Tip

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:43:52 +0000

Wow, Jay! That sounds like a good system. I think I might need a big tutorial for it though. lol That’s pretty cool that you’re figuring out who’s selling your info. The number of spam emails that I receive has really increased since I posted my email address here at TM. Oh well. My spam filter catches them, but then I still have to fish through the spam for the legitimate emails.

By: JayMonster

JayMonster — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:41:13 +0000

Beside my hosted accounts (Gmail, Yahoo, MSN) Since I have my own domain, I break everything out in assorted addresses, but they all get fed into a “catchall account” I create accounts uniquely like myWAMUAccount@mydomain.com. This way, I can filter it out if it becomes to “spammy,” but also the big benefit is I also find out who is “leaking” my name to mailing lists, etc. and I either stop doing business with them or read them the riot act for selling my information. (I have in several cases even threatened lawsuits since their Terms of Service state they will not do that.)

By: FatB

FatB — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:56:51 +0000

Actually, the best way to handle spam is like this:

If I’m not interested in anything they have to say I will sign up with an account from http://www.guerrillamail.com/ . That’s a free, temporary email service. After 15 minutes the email address disappears.

If I want to get notifications from them I send them to my gmail account but I add a plus sign and an identifier. So if your gmail address was heather@gmail.com and you wanted to get notifications from my mailing list you would give me the email address heather+fatb@gmail.com

You’ll still get all the emails but now you can set up a filter on that address and automatically put all those emails in one folder. That makes it really easy to figure out who has been selling your email address to spammers.

By: Bekah

Bekah — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:26:08 +0000

I have one for generic/junk – my yahoo. It’s the public one. Then I have a hotmail one for work-related things (resumes, etc). I have a gmail one for friends and family, and then my school-specific emails.

By: Kaye

Kaye — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:27:23 +0000

I actually have 4 addresses. One is the home one…only for friends and family. Not for the “outside” world. One is a hotmail account that I use to sign up for contests, accounts that I don’t want spam from, mypoints, and overall offers/registrations. One is my gmail account that I set up only for using google tools. There is actually nothing in that one. And one is an email from my alumni association. I use it for job searches/resumes because it is really just a redirector. I can go to my alumni association site and direct it to any actual email address I want. When I was job hunting, it went into my “real” inbox. Now it is directed at my “junk” box in hotmail. I still get email from headhunters if I care to look at them, but since I’m not job-hunting anymore, I can ignore it too.

By: Laura Spencer

Laura Spencer — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:36:27 +0000

Wow! You’ve got some great tips for handling spam (which is a major problem of mine).

By: kellys

kellys — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:00:55 +0000

I have several but my email filter is fantastic. I use microsoft office and just keep working on keeping my junk email folder current.

By: MomOnTheGo

MomOnTheGo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:57:18 +0000

I use a hotmail account for contests, etc., a gmail account for me and family account for other stuff. The third is through Rogers (our Internet supplier) and it gets the most spam, hotmail lets in the next largest amount but gmail filters almost all spam.

By: Daphne (One Mom in Alabama)

Daphne (One Mom in Alabama) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:20:14 +0000

I have 3 email addresses. One is the family email address, then I have 2 others. One I get more spam in than anything else, than the other, but I still use them both.

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:43:44 +0000

I have a personal web domain for our family. I have simply create new email addresses for each new item I need. They all come to the same place, but it is a filter so that I know exactly whom is sending us email and if a certain place, etc starts sending spam – I simply filter it out to the trash bin.