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Email Spam Blocker and Filter Options

Oct 13, 2011 4:52AM PDT

I use Verizon for my email. They let you mark a piece of mail as SPAM, but all that does is move it to the SPAM folder. It has no other effect. They also have a function for blocking and/or filtering email which I might consider spam mail. It seems that no matter what I do or how often I create a filter or block a sender, I continue to get spam mail from the same outfit. The Question is perhaps more of an observation.
It seems that spammers generate a different sending address every time they send out a piece of garbage so there is absolutely no value to be gained by blocking or filtering. The information after the "@" also changes all the time so the net result is you can't block it either.

I might as well just simply delete the mail one at a time.
Anyone agree or disagree?

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Did you not read the big red letters . . .
Oct 13, 2011 5:18AM PDT
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It appears only geeks are welcome.
Oct 13, 2011 6:25AM PDT

DID YOU NOT READ THE BIG RED LETTERS? Well excuse me Mr. Perfect. Did you not see it was my FIRST post. You could have told me that without seeming like you were talking to an idiot.

I thought that WAS a forum issue particularly when it asked me if I wanted to POST a NEW forum issue.

Your help was astoundingly rude and inconsiderate. Probably just like you.

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Not at all.
Oct 13, 2011 10:46PM PDT

But CNET's forums are divided into specified topics where such problems can be discussed much better.

This "Forum Feedback" forum is not visited that much, except when matters affect the forums of course, and so in normal times your post might have gone unnoticed for days.

The forum administrators do try to head off mis-placed postings with information and headers in each forum where needed, but it doesn't always work of course.

I will be heading over to the email forum later on, so I will see if i can offer any thoughts and help when I get there.

In the meantime, hopefully someone else will see your post there and chip in. Good luck.

Mark, (not a geek, Devil )

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Email spam blockers
Oct 14, 2011 12:11AM PDT

Mark, Thank you for your civilized, coherent and welcome response.
Pleased to see that you are not a geek. But isn't geek today a more
favored status than it might have been a number of years ago?