Issue  2003/4 - Feb. 9, 2003    
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 What's New?
 Kentucky Court of Appeals - Jan. 15 - 31, 2003 - Published
 Kentucky Court of Appeals - Jan. 15 - 31, 2003 - NonPublished
 Slamming Spam
  • I don't know about you, but I get a lot of spam;  over 1/2 my emails are spam.  Therefore, here are some sites and tips on how to minimize your spam.
  • TechTV Article has useful tips - http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3147.html
  • Short-hand tips:
    • Keep your email address as anonymous or on a need to know basis as best you can.  I have my posted at my web site.  Bad move.  Why?  There are little itty bitty spiders that crawl around the web and harvest email addresses.  Now mine is out there.  What I should have done is use an email box for inquiries off the web and change it once it gets to being used too much.  When you are requested to give an email address on some sites, use a free email address at hotmail.com or some other site and let them send all the junk to that one and not your business address.
    • Use a spam program.  I use CloudMark's SpamNet.  It's free, and I can set it up so all the spam goes into the 'deleted' folder organized by sender so they are sequentially in order by name of sender making it easier to ignore chunks of junk email.
      • www.CloudMark.com
      • Another good one I tried is:  http://www.mailfrontier.com/
        • Free to try.  $29.95 to by.
      • Use the junk/adult filters in your outlook program; sending the stuff to 'delete' (I send mine to delete so I don't have to move it twice).
      • Set up some other filters for other stuff you know you are getting.  I figure spamnet gets 35-40 per cent of my spam; and my filters get the other 15 per cent.  I then set up some exceptions to make sure certain senders make it through the maze.
  • Some other items of interest in this area are:

 Courier-Journal Law-Related On-Line Stories - Feb. 1 - 16, 2003

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