[Shop-talk] bogus emails

[Shannah Miller]

I've had good luck with pobox.com.  I like that I can
choose a variety of domains for my email address(es).

It's a redirector, and filters the spam as it's redirecting
the email.

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 6:22 PM Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:

> gmail is fine if you don't mind Google reading, analyzing and categorizing
> your email:
>
> https://securityboulevard.com/2019/11/does-google-read-your-email/
>
> I use Thunderbird--open source client from the Mozilla people--in POP mode
> and every time I get a spam email (20 or so a day), I create a filter on
> the major domain of the sender. It's an inconvenience, but at least I get
> the satisfaction that the next garbage that site sends goes straight to a
> local trash folder. T-Bird also has a decent calendar.
>
>
>
> On 9/14/2022 3:19 PM, Paul Parkanzky wrote:
>
> Get yourself a Gmail account. 99.9% of that stuff gets filtered right out.
>
> Also, don’t click those links!!!
>
> -Paul
>
> On Sep 14, 2022, at 5:59 PM, john niolon <jniolon at att.net>
> <jniolon at att.net> wrote:
>
> 
> over the last week or so I've been getting emails... anywhere from 6 to20
> a day... from people I don't know from web addresses
> that aren't valid offering me tremendous deals on everything
>
> from cigars to 30 dollar 20 draw tool boxes to campers to 1000 dollar cookware
> sets...
>
> I know these are all bogus and if I try to go to one of the sites my
> malware software slaps me
>
> any way to stop block this crap...  shop content...it happens on the pc in
> the shop
>
> john
>
>
>
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