[Shop-talk] bogus emails

[Gene Garrison]

Oopsie.  I said "it moves mails that it thinks are spam into a spam filter.". I meant to say "it moves mails that it thinks are spam into a spam folder."

- GeneG.

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022, at 6:02 PM, Gene Garrison wrote:
> 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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