Business Computing Tips

By K&K Fainges kfainges@...

Getting rid of junk emails that are becoming increasingly volumous,
can be a major task. There are a myriad of products designed to help
filter your email before it gets to you. Mailwasher is one available
free off the web at http://www.mailwasher.net/.

But there is one thing you do not do and that is reply to have
yourself removed from the list, especially if it is spam from a
commercial product. That just tells them that your email is an active
one and you will be inundated.

Your email program also has tools designed to help filter these
emails out. They are called RULES. To set these up, look under TOOLS
on your menu bar. There will be an option called MESSAGE RULES or
RULES WIZARD or something similar. Here you can select options that
let you delete messages automatically without you ever needing to see
them.

Free email users will be familiar with this function as most have
a "junk mail" option.

Now this takes time, you need to tell your filters which emails you
want deleted and it may take a couple of weeks to ensure that you get
them all sorted out, but it is well worth it in the long run.

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Please feel free to pass it on to your friends, just let them know I
wrote it.

Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of
Vocational and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's the 14
years of having to make sales or starve that makes her think she has
really learnt what does and doesn't work. A tutor for all ages, she
specialises in helping people get started on the long road to
technology.

"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to work."