[Shop-talk] bogus emails

[Gene Garrison]

I second the use of Thunderbird.  Except that I use it's adaptive 
(learning) spam filter, so that it moves mails that it thinks are spam 
into a spam filter.  And then I go in every few weeks and skim through 
them and "unspam" any that weren't spam.  Takes 5 minutes.  And helps 
train the filter.

And I use this computer for researching shop tools and techniques.  :)

- GeneG

On 9/14/22 17:17, Bob Spidell 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> 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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