Heather Haines writes,
<Mail from this group ("fantazma") came to me todayvia the
microbiologynewsgroup. As I have only recently joined the newsgroup, I
am fairly peeved to receive crap like this. Is there a way that I can
prevent getting this sort of junk mail? >
Prevent it? Wouldn't that be wonderful..... Not that *I* know of (but I
await suggestions from other members of this group...). However, there is
always the "delete" feature on my (and your?) emailer. I've been in the
practice of deleting - without even "opening" - anything that looks like
spam (junk email) - i.e., if the subject is "get rich, money" etc. or any
subject which is outright, or appears to be sexual. That screens maybe
95% of it out. The rest, which isn't so obvious by subject, I wind up
opening up and noticing it's spam the second I begin to read it, so I
delete it at *that* point.
I've been using the Internet for just over two years, and a subscriber to
this newsgroup for around a year now. I think that anybody who has an
email address is a candidate for spam, and newsgroup members are subject
to yet more. Exactly like, in the USA, anyway, how anybody with a street
address or P.O. box gets at least a minimum amount of junk mail, but
people who subscribe to magazines and/or have credit cards get socked
worse. But that's what wastebaskets are for. :-)
Infectionately,
Yersinia
Mycelium is Yourcelium. :-)
