Stopping junk emails

[Two Rivers]

I get from 30 to 60 junk emails a day. I always click on Block them out. The computer says they will be blocked, but the next day there are more of the same crap.
Is there another way to keep this trash out. It seems it is the same crap over and over.
The more I try to block them out it seems I just get more then the day before.

[masraum]

What email provider do you use, and what application do you use to check your email?

[genrex]

Change your e-mail address.

Use your current address to send a message to the people you want (so they know your new e-mail address), and then stop using your current address.

It's as simple as that. Solves the problem completely.

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[Two Rivers]

Using windows 7 and hotmail,{now outlook}

So if I change my email would not that just be temporary?
Once I started using the new email,

[nota]

I like google's spam filter

I only get about 1 junk e-mail in the inbox a week
vs the 30-60 filtered out to spam a day
so less then 1% junk get thru

[genrex]

I use hotmail for my home e-mail address, and windows... but I don't use outlook so I don't know what you need to do about outlook (if anything).

Changing your e-mail address doesn't have to be anything radical. For example if your e-mail address is Ralph (at) hotmail, you can just add an easy number and make it Ralph1 (at) hotmail.

It's not temporary. This would be a permanent change. Your current address will stay active for one year from the time of your last log-in (and it will receive tons of junk mail during time). After one year, the hotmail admins will shut it down for a six-month grace period, and then it will become available for other people if they want it. But that doesn't matter because by then you wouldn't have used it for one and one-half years, so it's as good as gone by that time anyway.

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[gacook]

Hotmail is your problem. Switch to Gmail. Over the years, I've had Hotmail and Yahoo! accounts...and the spam is terrible. Gmail's filter is apparently far superior; since I've been using Gmail (I guess about 6-7 years now), I have received maybe 1 or 2 pieces of spam in my inbox.

[Two Rivers]

Thanks , it looks like Gmail is the way to go.
Microsoft is changing to outlook but it looks like the email addresses will stay the same. From what I understand.

[daepp]

Use two emails - one for buying stuff or when you have to give an email to sign up for something, and then keep the other for real communication.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by genrex

Change your e-mail address.

Use your current address to send a message to the people you want (so they know your new e-mail address), and then stop using your current address.

It's as simple as that. Solves the problem completely.

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Get another email address for signing up to posting boards. I use Yahoo because I can just delete it all at once...I'd say most spam comes from signing up on posting boards.