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Originally Posted by monkey hanger
got to revive this thread. its not nuisance phone calls thats bothering me its all the nuisance emails i have had to delete every single day without opening them. is there an easy way to stop these. anything too techy will be beyond me so i,ll have to live with another daily task.
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A simple, no-expense method (I've used), is to setup another new, clean paid-for or free email account & just abandon the old, cluttered account. Never login again, simply walk away.
Then:
email (using Mail-Merge), all your contacts you want to stay in touch with, your new email address. Do this once, and you're done. No more effort. No expense, Problem? Gone.
Don't forget, avoid sites that offer "Free" stuff, Games, MP3's etc. Basically, any site with loads of Banners & Popups. They're often all about the Marketing Dollar & will sell or rent your email. I've found that sites claiming not to sell your details, do. It's called "Lying". This change of behaviour in not visiting "dodgy" sites & not giving your email address to everybody is called "Habitual Hygiene". You'll quickly re-adjust your Habits.
Presently I have 6 email addresses for different purposes. 2 are Spam accounts, 2 Sacred, Main accounts given ONLY to VERY few trusted, known acquaintances or friends & family members, and the others for other things.
This is how I KNOW, not guessed, sites that I've used Spam addresses on have lied. Why else will an unknown address receive Spam from a suspected bunch of Liars?
Maybe you will setup a similar multi-account arrangement for your own requirements?
I also use Thunderbird email client on Linux. Pretty good, that's a whole different story.