blocking spam how do I stop them everyday?

Log on to your Yahoo account, as you usually would.

Note: on the left of your screen, there should be a folder/button saying 'Spam'. Click on it.

Click the, "Edit Settings" button, once you are there.

Choice of settings to alter

Turn on the SpamGuard. This is the first thing you'll be asked to do. You will need to do that.

Understand that the next part is a choice that you need to make. You can automatically delete all

things that Yahoo considers, which can cause you to delete a lot of things that you don't want to be deleted, or you can select the second one. It will keep the emails in the bulk folder and allow you the opportunity to periodically check and make sure some mail hasn't gone to the wrong place.

Note that the third part of that screen is about images. The sad part about e-mail is that spammers can use it to track you. The way they do that is to have an image (or images) in the e-mail that they send to 'reach out' to their server for the image. It is a good idea to select no images for that reason. Again, it is a choice you make.

Click save, as it will take you to a screen that will tell you what you have saved.

Options chosen from Spamguard

Mail follows certain 'protocols' (or procedures) and part of it is that when you fetch your mail from the server, the message appears to the sender as "mail delivered to a valid address" so the bots know it's a valid address & keep sending junk (plus spread your address to other spammers).

Merely 'deleting' from your mail viewing application will not stop this cycle. 'Block sender' fails because it only blocks that specific sender & once the 'bots' discover your address, all they have to do is change a single character of the senders name, and they start getting their junk through again (depending on your filtering settings).

You want to end the notification of a valid address, from the Mail Server (your ISP).

Get a program that will examine what mail is on the server, and 'bounce' selected mail back to the spam sender ; in effect saying, 'This address is invalid' and they eventually stop sending junk. (Not instantly, but a "blacklist" is made, & it begins stopping spam).

Also, never 'click here to unsubscribe' or send ANY form of communication back to them: it only verifies that a live person is on your end of things.

'Mailwasher' Free, (1 POP3 mail account) works fairly well.

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/comm/fwspam.html

More app's here also.

A well know & trusted site.

After installing have these items displayed: 'Bounce' & 'Attachments' (never open any attachment), and any others you want.

To examine mail, hit the 'Check Mail' button, then sift through the mailbox; check "Bounce" for spam, delete stuff you just don't want to fiddle with, then "Process".

Your screened mail can now be "fetched" from the server with your normal mail application.

If it is to an online e-mail such as yahoo etc, make sure you never respond to any of them. Then make sure you mark all spam as spam.

Will take a while, but they will die out eventually.

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