unwanted emails from subscribers

[Dapper Zapper]

How can I stop getting unwanted emails from subcribers that I want nothing to do with ? Anybody know ? Thanks on advance .....

[angiefox10]

Are you talking about through TOTV?

Are you talking about random emails selling something?

If they are from a company you know such as Best buy or Sears, you can unsubscribe... It sometimes takes a week or so but it works.

You can put them on your ignore list... also works but understand more will still pop up as the come from various senders!

You can tighten your SPAM settings. In this case be sure to check your spam folder as friends often get caught in there.

I'm sure others will have suggestions...

Hope this helps.

[l2ridehd]

A lot depends on where your getting them. I will assume some e-mail system unless you state otherwise. If you could name the e-mail host that would help answer your question.

Most e-mail have a "spam" button so just highlight the e-mail and click on the spam icon. Going forward any mail from that person or entity will be placed in the spam folder and deleted in some pre-determined time frame. Usually 30 days.

More information from you would help answer the question.

[Bonny]

I have a "bounce back to sender" option with I e-mail program. Sometimes I'll use that. When they get it back, they think they are blocked or the e-mail address is wrong.

[skyguy79]

I've given up worring about the spam I received long ago. Most efforts are just not effective enough and some even risk your losing emails that you do want. What I did instead was download a free program called Mailwasher where I can review a basic form of my emails and delete those that are not wanted before actually downloading my emails to my regular email program. The program identifies know and potential spam messages and you add those that you identify as spam for future checks but were not already marked. You can even bounce messages as undeleverable if you want, but I don't generally recommend it as you see below. Learn more at Mailwasher Free Spam Filter Software: The Reliable Free Spam Blocker | MailWasher - Mailwasher Free (http://www.mailwasher.net/).

Most e-mail have a "spam" button so just highlight the e-mail and click on the spam icon.

When I was the administrator for a fairly large fraternal website, I setup an opt-in, opt-out mail list and the only service that I was aware of at that time was AOL that had a spam button. If you have one and use it, please be very careful in it's usage. You can create a headache for webmasters at sites that are not spam sites. Let me explain further.

I had a number of our members that accidentally hit the spam button because the dumb-dumb's at AOL placed the spam button right next to the normal delete button. When the member accidentally hit the spam button instead of delete, AOL would then notify our web service where our site was housed. They in turned had to place a block or restriction on us or face AOL's black listing their web servers. A real headache for webmasters for sure that get hit with AOL's questionable practice. It was like a nightmare for me when it happened, especially the first time it did.

I have a "bounce back to sender" option with I e-mail program. Sometimes I'll use that. When they get it back, they think they are blocked or the e-mail address is wrong.


Bounce back might work with a few sites, but bouncing back for most have one or two effect:
No effect because no human ever sees or finds out that their message bounced, nor do they care if it did.
The bounce back is used to take ownership of your address. By ownership I mean for mailing lists purposes. They can then legally and legitmately sell you email addres in list to spammers. This is how a lot of spam messages get out there along with you email address being publicly listed on blogs, message boards and other places where they can harvest you address by use of what's called spiders. Spiders are out there constantly, but thankfully they are usually harmless and good firewall software, which most of us now have on our computer as well as web sites, do a good job of protecting us from any intrusions including spiders.
Don't be afraid of what I've told you. Good protection is provided by the programs like Norton, McAfee and numerous other programs unless... you don't have one installed or kept updated.

[Mikeod]

I've given up worring about the spam I received long ago. Most efforts are just not effective enough and some even risk your losing emails that you do want. What I did instead was download a free program called Mailwasher where I can review a basic form of my emails and delete those that are not wanted before actually downloading my emails to my regular email program. The program identifies know and potential spam messages and you add those that you identify as spam for future checks but were not already marked. You can even bounce messages as undeleverable if you want, but I don't generally recommend it as you see below. Learn more at Mailwasher Free Spam Filter Software: The Reliable Free Spam Blocker | MailWasher - Mailwasher Free (http://www.mailwasher.net/).

I use Mailwasher also, but just to let me delete emails I don't want instead of downloading them. I can also designate some senders or sites as Spam and their emails will show up highlighted and marked for deletion so it's easy to manage my inbox. As for bouncing, even if someone at the sender looks at the returned email, the time delay from sending to bouncing lets them know the address is good, so it just confirms they have a "live one".